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Designed to show the practical side of sanctification 
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Author of, Progress After Entire Sanctification 




"Leaving us an example that we should follow His steps." — St. 
Peter. 

"He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk 
even as He walked." — St. John. 

" The word ' WA LK' in the language of the Apostle, is of very extensive 
signification. It includes all our inward and outward motions: all our 
thoughts and words and actions. It takes in not only every thing we 
do, but everything we either speak or think." — John Wesley. 



1912 

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INTRODUCTION 



We do not presume any one can walk as He walked, 
even in the relative and limited sense, according to our 
capacity, we are obligated to do, unless there is first, 
through the "exceeding great and precious promises 
given us" a destruction of the carnal nature and par- 
taking of His Divine nature. Through the sanctifying 
Baptism with the Holy Ghost, received subsequently to 
regeneration, in response to obedience and faith, the 
Christ-nature is incarnated in the soul making walking 
in His steps natural. 

"So then we are not to be mere imitators of Christ, but 
to partake of Christ; so that He becomes "our Life," and 
we have His divine nature, and possess His mind, and 
manifest His spirit, and bear His image, and walk even 
as He walked." Not as an experiment of a year, or for 
six months to imitate Him, but, "Being delivered out of 
the hands of our enemies (our sins) we might be able to 
serve Him all the days of our life, in righteousness and 
holiness." 



DEDICATION 



This book is dedicated to those who 
nave not yet learned to walk in "His 
steps, who did no sin" with an earnest 
prayer that they may become partakers 
of the Divine nature, the prerequisite and 
especially to those who claim io abide 
in Him in the highest sense f trusting 
they may be helped to confirm this confes- 
sion, by "walking even as He walked" 



CONTENTS 

Chapter Page 

I. OPENING CHAPTER 7 

II. THE OBLIGATION 13 

III. SOME THINGS NOT INCLUDED 19 

IV. POSITIVELY AND PRACTICALLY CONSIDERED 27 

V. HIS EXPANDING LIFE 3/ 

VI. MANIFESTATIONS OF CHRISTLIKENESS 43 

VII. HIS MAGNETIC LIFE 51 

VIII. HE WITHDREW HIMSELF 61 

IX. THE POWER OF THE LORD WAS PRESENT TO HEAL. . . 71 

X. CHRIST, THE FEARLESS PREACHER 83 

XI. FOLLOW THOU ME! 95 

XII. HIS TOLERANT SPIRIT 115 

XIII. LIFE AND LIGHT 126 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 

Opening Chapter. 

CHAPTER I. 
I. 

It is evident that on nothing so much depends the 
success of the cause of Christ as the spirit manifested by 
His devotees and followers. A leading organ of a great 
church, some time since, had this statement: "The chief 
hindrances to the extension of Christ's kingdom are found 
in the lives of professing Christians who do not illustrate 
incarnate in their lives the doctrines they profess to believe." 
If this is so of nominal Christianity, it is much more so 
of the professors of "Perfect Love." Every professor of 
Christianity should "walk as He walked," particularly 
those who profess to have attained the "Highest New 
Testament Experience." 

II. 

Sanctification is more than embracing a theory. It 
is more than bobbing up and, parrot-fashion, saying, 
"Saved and sanctified." It is a life lived in every day 
environment; a "living epistle" demonstrating how He 



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walkedl Embracing the correct theory, and even re- 
ceiving the experience are widely different matters from 
applying that life and working it out in practical life. 
Failure in the practical outworking of the life has greatly 
hindered the spread of Holiness. "There is an 'after work' 
as well as an 'altar work.' " 

There are many ten thousands professing "Perfect 
Love," many of whom seem to think keeping up testi- 
mony in approved phraseology satisfies demands in the 
case — they are famous for this at "Camp-meeting 
time," though sad have been the failures between time. 
Theories which fail in practical application never benefit 
mankind — they are relegated to the brush heap as worth- 
less^. We are not carping, but stating facts — the "Ho- 
liness movement" needs more "Practical Religion;" 
more living out in the valley what they teach on the moun- 
tain of revival timel 

III. 

The world waits for the church to sample Christ to it. 
If there were more real Christ-like walking before men, 
there would be more testimonials like that excited by 
shining-faced Stephen's life: "They were not able to 
resist." 

A demonstrator in a great department store tried to 
interest the writer in a new breakfast food. We were 
pressed for time and declined the offered sample. But 
she insisted, "O, just take one taste! Please do! Give 



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it a trial! It is so delicious, served with cream and fruit 
juice. I'm sure you will like it." We yielded to her im- 
portunity and had barely eaten the first exquisitely de- 
licious spoonful until our hand was feeling for the price 
of a box. Just so when we serve it (Perfect Love) with 
cream and fruit juice in our lives; people are attracted, 
like it, want it, pay the price, and get it. O, for more 
demonstrators of holy living! 

The story is told of a Methodist bishop pitying and 
helping a train fruit vender who failed to sell his fruit. 
Securing an apple from him, the bishop took his stand 
conspicuously at the front end of the car. He next held 
the apple up in the view of the passengers, and taking his 
handkerchief out, commenced vigorously to rub it on 
this side, then that, and the other, until it was rosy, red, 
luscious, tempting, and appetizing. Then, taking out 
his knife, he slashed off a juicy slice and, with a knowing 
smack of his lips and look of intense pleasure and satis- 
faction, ate the apple before the now fully interested 
fellow-travellers. The effect was magical, and as the 
formerly unsuccessful vender came through the car cry- 
ing, "Apples," hands were thrust at him on all sides and 
welcome cries of 'Til take one," "I'll take one," "Here," 
"I'll take one," were heard. They had seen a samplel 
Their mouths were made to waterl So if we sample Christ 
to the world they will want to u taste and see that the 
Lord is good" and know the blessedness of the man who 
trusts Him. God help us! 



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IV. 

The growing number of "holiness sheep" must be fed, 
nurtured, developed, and built up on their holy faith. 
They need more than a "reiteration of the principles 
whereby they were sanctified." The Gospel contains 
food calculated to feed "full-grown" men. This must be 
dug up and fed them. The failure, no doubt, in the lives 
of many prominent professors is in a measure traceable 
to insufficient strong meat. Many imperfections and in- 
consistencies in conduct are due doubtless to ignorance. 
None more eagerly desire, and need, knowledge than the 
sanctified. We have gone on the theory, "Our people 
are all right because of their great grace and high pro- 
fession (forgetting much grace does not imply much 
light) and have passed them by largely in our pulpit 
ministrations. Instead of "searching them out" and 
"leading them out" we have thrown bouquets, encourag- 
ing them they were the real thing, had the only simon 
pure, while others are spurious. This course, in many 
cases, has resulted in spiritual pride and a certain ex- 
ultation over failings of others (while blind to our own), 
has warped and produced a onesided type of character. 
An asset of power in the future of the "Holiness Move- 
ment" will be in the raising up of teachers and preachers 
especially gifted and anointed, to build up and teach the 
sanctified — as zealously desirous of this result as they now 
are to lead to the crisis of sanctification. 



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V. 

Indoctrination is not so much needed among the great 
majority of holiness professorsl The theory is simple 
enough and easily comprehended by those who have the 
experience. But how to rationally advance is the cry of 
the sanctified heart! 

Much indoctrinating has been done among our people. 
Things they are conversant with are repeatedly iterated 
and they gladly receive them. But it seems to us (and is 
also the cry of many of our most intelligent people) that we 
need more leading out, expansion, enlargement f deepening, 
and refreshment, than going back to indoctrinationl 

It is our cry that the justified are in great danger of 
losing that experience if they fail to go on to entire sancti- 
fication. A captain discovered his vessel was fast being 
driven to the rock bound coast of Ireland. He cried, 
"Deep water! deep water, men, or perish!" We are 
coming to the same conclusion for our holy people. It 
is, "Launch out from the dangers of the shore into the 
deep of God's love, or perish!" 

VI. 

The complaint frequently comes to us, many of our 
books are too deep; they deal technically and theo- 
logically with the subject, and are couched in terms more 
familiar to the scholar than to the common people so 



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numerous among us. We could not, if we would, write 
for the scholar. We write for the Lord's little ones. 

Simplicity is the keynote of this book. It abounds 
with illustrations so simple, ever the "wayfaring man, 
though a fool," need not misconstrue the meaning. We 
want our readers to get our idea, not to mystify them, 
so have avoided intricacies which perplex the common 
mind. 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 

CHAPTER II. 

THE OBLIGATION. 

He That Saith, "Ought!" 

"He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so 
to walk even as He walked." 1st Jno., 2:6. 

This text is a startling statement for even the best 
of us to ponder! Correct theory of holiness and pro- 
fession are widely different from outworking of the life 
and its application to daily life in walking as he walked. 
"He that saithl" — that is, testimony, mouth profession. 
He that claims to be a Christian, a follower of Christ, 
His representative or disciple even by identification with 
His visible church, ought to give evidence of such pro- 
fession by walking as He walked. If a justified man 
ought, surely a sanctified man oughtl 

John, the Baptist, cried to his auditors, "Bring forth 
fruits meet for repentance or answerable to amendment 
of life" — that is, show by adjusting and making amends 

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for past sin and breaking off present sin, genuineness of 
your repentance. So we would cry to professors of re- 
ligion in general, and of holiness in particular, "Bring 
forth in your lives evidence of a holy life in all manner of 
holy living." 

This epistle (of John) abounds in cautions to be care- 
ful that what we say, or profess, and what we do, or po- 
sess, agree. For example: "If we say we have fellow- 
ship with Him, and (while claiming said fellowship with 
Him) walk in (spiritual) darkness, we lie and do not the 
truth." Again, "He that saith, 'I know Him,' and 
(when making this testimony) keeps not His command- 
ments, is a liar." Once more, "He that saith he is in the 
light and (at the same time) hateth his brother, is in 
darkness." "If a man say (profession), 'I love God,' and 
hateth his brother, he is a liar." 

Jesus himself warns, by our words (what we say) we 
shall be justified or condemned, and for every idle word 
(even untruthful testimony which claims what we do not 
possess) men shall speak, they shall give an account 
thereof in the day of judgment. Hence the importance 
of even holiness professors demonstrating in practice what 
they say with their lips\ Stop! Ponder here in prayerful 
mood, "Tve been saying, 'I "abide in Him," even in the 
highest sense; if so, I ought to confirm this testimony by 
"walking as He walked!" How careful we should be 
that life and testimony correspond! 



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The chief foes of Christianity have ever been those 
within the camp, Achan like, professing to "abide in 
Him," yet not walking as He walked." These are the 
wounds Christ receives in the house of His friends. Says 
one, "The Christianity of the 'Twentieth Century* is not 
the Christianity of Christ and the Apostles," and another, 
"It is both a misinterpretation and misrepresentation." 
Present day popular worldly (?) Christianity is not 
"walking as He walked," mis-samples and misrepresents 
Him to the world, giving erroneous conceptions of His 
work and great cause to His enemies to blaspheme. Woe 
to the church because of stumbling blocks! 

Nothing so detrimental to the spread of the religion 
of Jesus in any of its stages as the inconsistencies of pro- 
fessors (especially holiness). O, for conviction here on 
professors of "full salvation." Untold in time and 
eternity is the damage done by professors of theoretical 
holiness. The writer knows of numerous instances where 
their influence, instead of being like pleasant ointment 
poured forth, is as a nauseous stench — active and liberal 
they are — pouring out their money like water for the 
cause, professing at every opportunity, to abide in Him, 
but so apparently unlike Jesus in tone, manner, look, and 
temper, that whole communities are poisoned against the 
doctrine by their pernicious influence. It is sincerely to 
be hoped such will get right or cease their hypocritical 
profession. The following example under our observa- 
tion illustrates the point: 



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An Amusing Example. 

We once held a revival of twenty-five days' duration 
in a western M. E. church, with only one conversion 
outside of the church, though quite a few in the church 
were reclaimed and quickened. But what was the rea- 
son for so little fruit? A prominent official was glaringly 
inconsistent. As we dealt with the young men they 
would hide behind this eminent hypocrite. "See him 
stand on all the propositions! He is not right. We see 
his life. When he gets right we will believe in it!" We 
know if men mean to be right they will push past the 
inconsistencies of professors ; still stumbling blocks make 
it harder for them to yield. But see the facts: This 
man professed, "Holiness," "Perfection," "Perfect Love," 
"Heart Purity," "Soul Rest," "Cleansing from all Sin," 
"Fulness of the Blessing," etc., etc., and all but "Abso- 
lute Perfection." Whatever test was given, he would bra- 
zenly stand. It developed he would not speak to his 
wife nor she to him: he ate alone and so did she; he 
cooked his meals separately and so did she; he slept up 
stairs and she down ; his laundry was done separately and 
so was hers ; he went to church alone and she went alone ; 
she would not walk nor talk with him nor he with her; 
he sat in one corner of the church alone and she in the 
other ; she had no use for him and he had no use for her; 
he looked at her like a thundercloud and she did like- 
wise to him ; he had no confidence in her religion and she 



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had none in his ; he said she was to blame and she said he 
was to blame. It was surely amusing, as well as per- 
plexing, knowing these facts, to see them both on their 
feet at once, testifying to everything in the New Testa- 
ment. God gave us at last courage to threaten them 
with His wrath and judgments for perjury in claiming 
what they did not possess, and they stood no more, but 
came to the altar and got right with God and each other 
and celebrated by walking home together. Sometime 
later God visited the church and town with a gracious re- 
vival. 

Ought. 

Ought is a very strong word; it signifies to "owe." 
We owe it as a debt to humanity and God as well as 
ourselves, to "walk as He walked. 11 Solemn obligation! 
To God, to glorify His grace; to man, lest he stumble; 
and to ourselves, to insure highest happiness, usefulness, 
and heaven. If we ought so to walk even as He walked, 
we may. If we may, we ought. If we ought, we can; 
and if we can, I am persuaded many of us, by God's 
grace, will. 

Ought implies obligation. Obligation on us from God 
to do or be necessitates power from Him to enable us to 
be or do. If He says, "Imperative, Present," "Be ye 
holy," He follows this command by an enabler in the 
"Present Tense," "I am the Lord which do make you 
holy." He requires no impossibilities of His creatures. 



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The fact Inspiration says we ought to walk as He walked 
is indubitable evidence we may at least relatively do so. 
We cannot conceive of God' trifling with or mocking His 
poor creatures by holding up for their attainment im- 
possible standards. 

In the next chapter we shall show concisely what is not 
meant 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 

CHAPTER III. 
SOME THINGS NOT INCLUDED. 

"If you hold the standard too high, you drive men to 
despair; if you hold it too low, you drive them to hell fire." — 
John Wesley. 

"For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to 
lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary 
things." — Paul, Acts, 15 Chap., 28, v. 

There are many senses in which He walked, poor 
finite creatures may not follow Him. If we include ir- 
rational and absurd things in our concept we will stum- 
ble and confuse sincere souls. 

What is it To Walk as He Walked? 

As following in His steps who did no sin is but another 
Scriptural way of putting "that holiness, apart from which 
no man shall see the Lord" and as the "Positive" side of 
a subject is more strikingly seen by contrast with the 
"Negative," we will show concisely what is not meant 

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and then particularly some practical evidences of a 
Christlike walk. 

And First: 

We do not understand by this obligation that we are 
to have His omnipotent, unlimited power. We must ever 
be painfully conscious of limitations. "Absolute Per- 
fection" is that perfection to which nothing can be added. 
Such belongs to God alone. Ours is relative, dependent, 
and finite. "Infallibility," one has said, "the Pope, and 
other irresponsible persons claim." We do not. Per- 
fection of mind, infallibility, intuitive knowledge or om- 
niscence, faultless judgment and memory are not claimed. 
We may have, however, His pure mind (Let this mind 
be in you which was in Christ) ; blameless judgment, and 
His blood to cover defects of memory and consequent 
blunders. 

Second — 

Will Obliteration is not meant. On the contrary, will 
was an essential part of Jesus' makeup as a man. His 
will was, however, invariably submitted to God's will. 
When conscious, submission to God's will, caused Him 
intensest suffering He gladly said, "If this cup may not 
pass from me except I drink it, thy will be done" "Not 
as I will, but as Thou wilt." The great, dominant prin- 
ciple of His life was expressed by David : "i" delight to do 
Thy will, O my God." So our wills are not taken from 






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us or destroyed, but brought to a glad submission to the 
will of God, however contrary His will may be to the 
natural will and whatever suffering is involved. We 
still have our wills and could will contrary to God's will 
and take ourselves from His hand, but the disposition to 
want our way is gone. We have will submission, and not 
will obliteration*. It is proper to remark here, submission 
to God, and not to every fanatic who roams the land. 
The language of our heart is: 

"I worship thee, sweet will of God, 
And all thy ways adore ; 
And every day I live, 

I learn to love thee more and more." 

Third — 

11 Walking as He Walked" Does Not Include Exemp- 
tion from Sorrow. Jesus was the humanest man that ever 
lived. He was no "unpitying divinity" aloof from and 
untouched by the sorrows and sufferings of humanity. 
Stoicism, and indifference, to men of like passions, all 
about us, have no claim to Christ-like walking. He was 
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. His great 
heart was sympathetic of earth's sorrows. He wept at 
the grief and bereavement of His friends. Every pang 
we feel, He has felt the same. "He hath suffered" be- 
ing tempted. 

"Touched with a sympathy within, 
He knows our feeble frame; 
He knows what sore temptations mean. 
For He hath felt the same." 



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He was made perfect through suffering. Hear Him, 
"Now is my soul sorrowful even unto death,' ' and "being 
in an agony," He prayed more earnestly. 

Nothing is a clearer evidence of the absence of walking 
like Jesus than loss of sympathy for the sorrowing. A 
fanatic, at his wife's funeral, arose and said:"I want to 
testify, I have gotten so far along I do not feel grief 
now." The pastor dropped his head, as if in brief med- 
itation, then suddenly looked up and said, "Brother, go 
home, and ask God to forgive you\" Amen. God wants 
none to get so far alongi 

Fourth — 

In the present order of society it does not seem God's 
purpose to destroy one essential element of our humanity. 
Many have held aloof from the holy life for fear of de- 
humanization — extinction of legitimate sex functions of 
the body. Others, finding after the reception of sanc- 
tification they still retained human instincts, have 
thought themselves mistaken in thinking they had at- 
tained, and have given up. No doubt a proper under- 
standing and adjustment of this delicate subject greatly con- 
cerns the individual holiness professor and the progress of 
the movement. There are extremes. We must strike the 
happy medium. If a holy life incapacitates for the 
propagation of the race, inspiration conflicts in its com- 
mands: " Be fruitful and multiply;" "If thou marry thou 
hast not sinned;" "Marriage is honorable in all." We are 



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to be preserved blameless in body — not out of it — not 
destroy any of its essential and God-ordained elements. 
God's purpose in sanctifying is to secure a reasonable 
control of the animal instincts. Revelation gives no 
evidence that these functions, or their continent and legiti- 
mate use, in their proper sphere, are sinful. They are 
as pure as any other organs or functions of the body. 
Children coming to continent parents are to be looked on as 
a blessing. "Behold, they are the heritage of the Lord." 
" They shall be like olive plants about thy table." "Blessed 
is the man that hath his quiver full of them." " Thus shall 
the man be blessed that feareth God" — not cursed, as 
modern sentiment has it. If any class should have 
progeny, it is holy people! Still, "the wife as the weaker 
vessel should be given honor, and when necessary rigid 
selfdenial should be practiced to help bear one another's 
burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christl A safe rule for 
holy people in the proper adjustment of these delicate 
matters is: Never to violate their tender, sensitive, en- 
lightened consciences! Blessed are they who condemn 
not themselves in those things which they allow. 

Fifth — 

We are not to suppose Jesus inherited, as men do now, 
perverted instincts and a weakened constitution. There 
was no taint through heredity of weakness or infirmity 
in Him. He was the one perfect man ! He knew nothing 
of the carnal nature and its bent to sin, with consequent 



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perversions of natural appetites. He was holy, spotless, 
pure. Many of us are subjects of prenatal markings and 
inclinations to various infirmities and weaknesses of 
which He was free. 

"Consequently, it is safe to say we may not wholly be 
free from purely instinctive elements of our physical 
constitutions which, unbidden, may occasionally and 
instinctively arise in the presence of their appropriate 
objects," though by watchfulness, carefulness, and prayer* 
fulness these may be kept under proper subjugation and 
obedience to the dictates of reason and an enlightened 
and sensitive conscience. Said Paul, "I beat my body 
and keep it under." I hold it; it does not hold me. I 
am not controlled by it ; it is controlled by me. I am not 
subject to its power; it is subject to me! 

Sixth — 

By the obligation to walk as He walked, we under- 
stand we are to so do in a relative, limited sense, up to 
our capacity. The wise schoolman does not expect 
eighth grade ability of first grade pupils. God does not 
require angelic, Adamic, or absolute obedience of finite 
creatures, but only up to our capacity. He does not ex- 
pect of us perfection of knowledge, mind, memory, or 
judgment; or impeccability (not capable of sinning), 
infallability, immutability, omnipotence, nor omniscence. 
Not will obliteration, but submission. Not freedom 
from blunders, errors, infirmities, humanity, or mistakes, 



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but willingness to correct these as far as possible. Not 
exemption from pain, sorrow, temptation, trial, and 
testing. Not unanimity of taste, but modest apparel for 
each individual. Not perfection of development, ma- 
turity, manners, speech, or conduct. Not above pray- 
ing the Lord's prayer, and consciously needing the merit 
of His atoning blood to cover numerous defects, limita- 
tions, and ignorances. Not sinlessness or faultlessness, 
but blameless before God. And if there be anything else 
contrary to sound reason and rationality, the Bible, and 
experience, we do not mean thatl "The subject must be 
disguised and misrepresented to be opposed by rational 
men," said Mr. Wesley. 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 
CHAPTER IV. 

POSITIVELY AND PRACTICALLY CONSIDERED. 

"Be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your Father which is in 
heaven is perfect." 

"The disciple is not above his Master; but every one that 
is perfect shall be as his Master." 

"And every man that hath this hope in him, purifieth 
himself EVEN AS He is pure" 

"As He is, so are we in this world." 

"So then we are not to be mere imitators of Christ, but 
to partake of Christ so that He becomes 'our life' and we 
have His divine nature and possess His (pure) mind and 
manifest His spirit and bear His image and 'Walk even 
as He walked. 1 " 

"Exceeding great and precious promises that by these 
ye might be partakers of the Divine Nature." 

Some of our readers have, no doubt, already taken 
issue with the subject of our book and said, "The thing 
is impossible." The standard is too high and would fain 
have us lower it. We are reminded of the familiar his- 
toric incident of the Ensign who bore his country's flag 

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well nigh into the teeth of the enemy's guns. The sol- 
diers, seeing his daring and danger, cried, "Bring back 
the colors; we cannot capture the fort! It is too peril- 
ous! We would lose our lives!" "Nay," was the prompt 
reply, "I cannot bring back the colors; you will have to 
bring up your men to the colors." So we can never 
lower the colors or the standard God has given, to suit 
men living beneath their privilege. Bring up your lives 
to God's standard! They tell us the German version 
reads: "It stands written, be ye holy as I am holy." 
Through all the mutations of time, in spite of dungeon, 
fire, and sword, and bitter hatred of foes, God's standard 
stands written. It can never be lowered to meet the de- 
mands of a recreant, faithless church. It stands writtenl 
A member of the church said, "You expect too much of 
us." We replied, "It is the other way; you expect too 
little of God!" "Your standard is too high." "No, 
yours is too low." 

But What is it, To Walk as He Walked? 

If we can see how He walked, the question how we 
ought to walk is answered. As we review the evidences 
of a Christ-like walk, let us humbly ask, "Am I so walk- 
ing? 

(1) Christ walked in undivided love for God. He who 
taught "Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy 
heart and with all thy mind, soul, and strength," so 



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loved God. "I and my Father are one." His heart 
was welded to His Father in Perfect Love and unity. 
Not the least intriguing with other lovers in Him. God 
had His undivided love. He delighted to do God's will. 
The Father was well pleased in Him, His beloved Son. 
Jesus had the testimony, "I do always those things that 
please Him." This, His ambition — to please God and 
to finish the work God had given Him; seeking not His 
own glory, but His that sent Him. No suffering, perse- 
cution, agony, stripes, buffetings, thorns, not even the 
cross, could divide that love. In its shadow He said, 
"Thy will be done." "Thy will is the expression of Thy 
love, and whatever Thou wiliest me is right." "I de- 
light to do Thy will." 

He has made provision we may have this same un- 
divided love for God and oneness with His Father, u Sanc- 
tify them through Thy truth that they all may 

be ( one; f as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee." Do 
we imitate Him in this? Is there a hankering for other 
loves? The Lord, thy God, will circumcise thy heart 
to love the Lord with all thy heart. "Then shall thy 
heart no longer rove, rooted and fixed in God." 

(2) Love for God ultimates into love man-ward. He 
that loveth God, loveth his brother also. He that loveth 
not his brother, loveth not God. Hereby perceive we 
the love of God, because He laid down His life for us. 
"Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one 
another and lay down our lives for the brethren." God's 



30 Walking as He Walked, 

love was universal m its provision, world-wide. "God 
so loved the world." Jesus voluntarily laid down His 
life in sacrifice for the world ; " He laid down (voluntarily) 
His life for us." "I have power to lay it down and to 
take it up." He chose deliberately, of His own accord, 
to lay it down. He broke over sectarian, Jewish narrow- 
ness, and exclusiveness, and reached out in His sacrificial 
love to all mankind, irrespective of race, nation, denom- 
ination, clime, or color. The obligation is on us to walk 
as He in his broad universal love. Are we so doing? 
Is our love world-wide? Yearning for those outside our 
little circle or fold, in the regions beyond; going, sending, 
or praying for them? 

( 3 ) Love for foes is also an evidence of walking as 
He walked. He loved and prayed for His bitterest 
enemies. They maligned Him, accused Him of living 
in league with demons; yea, the very prince of Devils 
himself — "He hath a devil and is mad" — took Him 
to the brow of the hill to thrust Him down the deep 
abyss; buffeted, bruised, smote with rods, palms of their 
hands, and burly fists, thorn-crowned, ultimately nailed 
him to the tree, pierced His side, thirsted for His blood ; 
cried, "Crucify Him!" "Crucify Him!" "Away with 
such a fellow; it is not fit for Him to live." Still His 
latest breath breathes a prayer of love and forgiveness 
for these cruel, merciless enemies; "Father, forgive them, 
they know not what they do." He requited all their 
malignant hatred by dying for them. 



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The obligation is with us, however malignant, cruel, 
active, contemptible, to love our enemies and do good to 
those who despitefully use and persecute. / say to you, 
love your enemies and pray for them. No better gauge 
can be found of our love for them than the amount of 
good we seek to do them, and prayer on their behalf. 
If we truly love our enemies we will not treat them to 
cold shoulder and a snub, rub or thrust on every op- 
portunity. We will not walk on the other side of the 
street to avoid speaking. Rather, go out of our way to 
speak and befriend, gladly help if in distress, nurse if 
sick, aid if in need — in other words, heap coals of fire 
of kindness on their heads. "Therefore, if thine enemy 
hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink." 

We recall while working for a great corporation, an 
official requesting us to make a false entry, and upon our 
refusal his violent rage and threats to knock our head 
off and never to forgive us to our dying day for insub- 
ordination and insinuation that he was dishonest. Being 
young in the Christian life, we were troubled ; we remem- 
bered the Scripture concerning one having aught against 
you, etc., and prayed and resolved to get even with him 
by kindness. Before long God gave us the desired op- 
portunity. In the general shakeup contingent on change 
of management he lost his position, and, having a large 
family, needed work. Learning of a lucrative position, 
we hastened to his home and said, as he gruffiy said, 
/Come in," "I've come to tell you of a foremanship 



32 Walking as He Walked, 

vacancy with the L. & N. R. R." It is needless to say 
he was completely won over. What opportunity all of 
us have for this practical demonstration of loving our 
enemies! 

Love For the Church. 

( 4 ) Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it 
that He might sanctify it. This definite purpose of Jesus 
in giving Himself up for the sanctification of the church 
is worthy of emulation of all His followers. If He 
thought dying for the purification of the church an object 
worthy of pursuit — lived, sacrificed, prayed, toiled, died 
for that specific end; the accomplishment of this, the all- 
consuming passion that fired His every energy; if this 
object was worthy of the best effort of the Son of God, 
it is a worthy goal for the best of His ministers — worthy 
of their best talents, learning, and endeavor. If Christ 
died for the sanctification of the church, we can afford to 
put definite effort forward to the same end. If He did, 
we owe no one an apology for walking herein as He 
walked. In fact, we ought so to do. Are we walking 
as He did in His special love for His church ? 

(5) He walked above Sin. "Leaving us an example that 
we should follow His steps who did no sin." He never 
violated His conscience. He was the lamb without spot 
or blemish, slain to take away the sin of the world — to 
forgive us our sins, destroy completely the works of the 
Devil, and endow us with a power to "go and sin no 



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more." We are to lay aside "every weight 11 (cumbrance) 
and "the sin that doth so easily beset." We are not even 
to have a besetting sin that doth so easily upset us. Dr. 
J. H. Smith said the only time this expression occurs in 
the whole Bible is in Hebrews 12:1, and here God says 
we are not to have it, but get rid of it: "Let us lay aside 
the sin which doth so easily beset us\" If we say we abide 
in Him, we ought to walk as He walked, "who did no 
sin" Jealousy, insincerity, anger, ill temper, ill will, 
self-will, hatred, wrath, malice, unforgiving spirit, bit- 
terness, holding old score and grudge, faultfinding, cen- 
soriousness, evil speaking, touchiness, stubbornness, 
grouchy, pouty spells had no place in His life. He com- 
mands us to let all these things be put away from us. 
"Let every one who names the name of Christ, depart 
from iniquity." Unless we learn how to partake of His 
holy life and follow Him in doing no sin, rather than 
imitating Him in a special mode of baptism, devotion to 
ordinances, etc., while clinging to sin, He must say those 
fearful words in the judgment, "Depart from me, all ye 
that work iniquity." 

( 6 ) Lowliness. "I am meek and lowly in heart." If we 
will remember God's reducing process in Isaiah, on the 
descending scale, there will be little trouble in locating 
ourselves and occupying our proper sphere. After say- 
ing all the nations are only as a drop in the bucket in His 
sight, which would make each one of us as large as the 
one fifteen hundredth part of a million, He proceeds to 



34 Walking as He Walked, 

say we are each as big as a grain of sand cut up into 
fifteen hundred million parts — i. e., one of those parts 
is our size in His sight. But still there is too much of us! 
So He administers the knockout blow by saying, "All the 
nations are as nothing in His sight," yea, as "less than 
nothing." Now as there are said to be fifteen hundred 
million people in all the nations' population, each indi- 
vidual inhabitant is just as large in God's sight as the 
one fifteen hundred millionth part of 0, and less than 0! 
Good-bye. "I beseech you, brethren, not to think more 
highly of yourselves than you ought to think." Is it not 
because we do not realize our insignificance that God does 
not more largely use some of us? 

(7) He Walked in Self -Sacrifice. He had nothing over ; 
used up every energy for God. So poor, not even a life 
insurance policy to pay His funeral expenses. Someone 
must donate Him a tomb. How little walking as He 
walked in self-sacrifice and denial among His followers 
today! Yet. this is a first condition of discipleship. 

There are so many Scriptural points showing "How 
He Walked," we can but concisely name them here and 
then treat the subject more at length in succeeding 
chapters. 

He walked in Holiness, Humility, Obedience, Aggres- 
siveness, Self-Denial, Tenderness, Considerateness, Sym- 
pathy, Pity, Compassion, Mercy, Love, Poverty, Truth. 
He delighted in God's will; in intimate communion with 
God; in Faith, a Life of Prayer, perfect surrender to 



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God. Holy, Harmless, Undefiled, Spotless; Separated 
from the world and sinners; Patient under Fire, Per- 
fect self control. Loved the poor; Antagonized the sin 
of an unspiritual church, Persecuted, Hated by the 
world for faithfully witnessing against its sin. — "Me 
it hateth because I testify of it that the works thereof 
are evil." — He went about doing good; pleased God; 
was anointed with power and the Holy Ghost. 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 

CHAPTER V. 

HIS EXPANDING LIFE. 

"If you are not growing more loving, more gentle, more 
tender and Christ-like, and more easy to be entreated, 
then you are not growing in the right direction." 

"Jesus increased in wisdom and stature and in favor 
with God and man." 

Dr. Upham (there is no higher human authority on 
deeply spiritual things), writing of the expanding life of 
Jesus, said: 

The Savior was holy from the beginning. Every 
power of body or mind was fully sanctified. But, "the 
child grew and waxed strong in spirit, filled with wisdom, 
and the grace of God was upon Him." "Jesus increased 
in wisdom and stature, and in favor (or grace) with God 
and man." What is the meaning of this increase of 
strength in spirit? How could He increase in the favor 
of His heavenly Father, if, with the increase of His ex- 
panding powers there was not also a corresponding 
growth in holy love? So of the angels in heaven, they 

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38 Walking as He Walked, 

are holy, but are always growing in holiness. In their 
exercises they are like their heavenly Father but in re- 
lation to the degree, he writes, "What growth then must 
there be in angel minds which are neither hindered by 
inward or outward evils in their progress! What ex- 
pansion! What increased intensity of desire! What 
higher and more triumphant energies of love!" 

Likewise, writing of the growth of man after entire 
sanctification, he says in substance, it is not meant by 
this expression, entire sanctification, that it is so entire 
as to exclude an increase and greater expansions and de- 
grees of Divine Love in time and eternity. 

Thank God, Jesus grew, angels are always expanding, 
and the holy John Baptist, from his birth full of the Holy 
Ghost, is said to have increased and grown in holiness; 
and if necessity was on these spotless subjects to ad- 
vance in the Divine Life, it is highly proper that the best 
of us should grow, and make proper effort so to do. 

Have we not neglected to "Walk as He Walked" in 
His Expanding Life? Have we not travelled in too nar- 
row confines and revolved around in too small a circle? 
Are we not like Jumbo, the elephant, who spent much of 
his life in a circular tread-mill, around and round and 
round? His owner, taking pity on him, decided to su- 
perannuate and give Jumbo his freedom; but force of 
habit was so strong on him when set free he commenced 
the old circular grind, and revolved around in the old 
circle. Are we not going around and clinging to the 



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first principles of sanctification? Do not many of us 
fail to get beyond "saved and sanctified," and should we 
not know more than how to "keep sanctified,' 11 as import- 
ant as that is? Should we not more than hold the 
ground? Should we not, like our Savior, advance? 

It is said, if you put a small gold fish in a house aqua- 
rium, or glass globe, it will only grow to four or five 
inches in length, but if you place the same fish in the 
Thames river, its native environment, it will grow and 
develop into a fish weighing thirty pounds. So of our 
souls, if we keep them within too narrow confines in our 
conceptions of the possibilities of rational development, 
we will dwarf them. God help us to get in our proper 
environment, the inexhaustable ocean of God's love, 
where there is plenty of room to swim around without 
being cramped, and develop all our powers and enlarge 
through the power of the Holy Ghost, ever shedding 
abroad "newer and more triumphant energies of the 
love of God in our souls! Glory to God!" 

There is an unwarranted squeamishness and fear of 
doing anything proper to increase the life of God in the soul 
among the professors of Full Salvation. Spiritual progress 
is thought to be automatic and, independent of any effort 
on our part, the life will expand. But God's command is 
imperative, "Grow (You grow) in grace and the knowl- 
edge of our Lord Jesus Christ." We never knew an in- 
dolent, lazy ignoramus ever to fall heir to knowledge, 
worldly or spiritual. To grow requires co-operation. 



40 Walking as He Walked, 

There are numerous professors of holiness who are fos- 
silized and immovably fixed and anchored in their past at- 
tainments and experiences, doubtless because of this fool- 
ish idea that growth would overtake them, independent 
of any effort of their own, or by reason of the vitality of 
their experience. This idea is not according to the 
analogy of nature. True, the reception of the warm 
sunshine and rain is most essential and the subject is 
passive, but it is also true that the vigorous cultivating 
even after the weeds (typifying inbred sin) are removed, 
is a most important factor in the growth of the corn, etc., 
and this cultivating may in a measure typify the soul's 
co-operation in growth. 

Take the example of Jesus. According to Dr. Asa 
Mahan, "He received the measureless effusions of the 
Spirit at the beginning, and during the progress of His 
mission, because they were a necessity to Him — just 
as similar baptisms are a necessity to us in our life's 
mission. We have here, no doubt, one reason why our 
Savior spent so much time alone with God and in prayer 
to Him. Christ teaches us that God gives the Holy 
Spirit to those who seek, and ask, and knock at the door 
of mercy for this anointing. In this respect, also, God 
has made Christ our Exemplar, giving the Spirit to Him 
when He consciously needed the special Divine influence 
and sought for it, just as He gives us the Spirit as we con- 
sciously need and seek His anointing." 



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In illustration of the foregoing the same writer said: 
"At the close of His temptation (and, consequently, after 
Jesus praying, received the Holy Ghost) in the wilder- 
ness, after Satan fled discomfitted, from His presence, 
and angels had descended and ministered unto Him, the 
final and great Baptism seems to have been given, and 
Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee." 

In the Pentecostal Baptism and consequent fullness, all 
the demands of the Christian life are met; still it may be 
said of these included supplies as of special blessing prom- 
ised Israel, and general blessings promised Christians: 

"I WILL YET FOR THIS BE ENQUIRED OF, BY 
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL TO DO IT FOR THEM." 

In the same strain Mr. Wesley wrote: "God hardly 
gives His Spirit even to those whom He has established in 
grace, unless they pray for Him, not once, but on all oc- 
casions." This, then, is a most helpful direction for 
those who would, like Jesus, increase in Divine favor and 
love. "How much more shall your Heavenly Father 
give the Holy Spirit to those WHO ASK HIM!" 

If precedents be needed to further establish this po- 
sition, they can be drawn in abundance from the lives 
of men like Finney, Cookman, Baker, Keene, the Dis- 
ciples, Wesley, and Jesus, who are all on record as having 
many gracious uplifts and blessings and seasons of re- 
freshing from the presence on high, and that while walk- 



42 Walking as He Walked, 

ing in the light of a full salvation from sin and acceptance 
with God. Hallelujah. 

Should a perplexed one need further proof and illustra- 
tion of how one can be full of the HOLY GHOST and 
still, in answer to prayer, receive fresh supplies of the 
Spirit (Philippians 1 :19), let him remember God is said 
as our Heavenly Father to know what things we have 
need of, even before we ask Him, and yet He has com- 
manded us to ask for these foreknown blessings. He 
knows, but conditions the receiving on our asking." 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 

CHAPTER VI. 

MANIFESTATIONS OF CHRISTLIKENESS. 

"Be such a man, live such a life, that if all lives were like 
yours, earth would be a paradise.' 11 

" No service for God is of any value which is contradicted 
by the life at home. If our Christianity is not equal to the 
task of the commonplace routine of life, it is not Christianity 
at all. Our best loved ones are entitled to the best of our- 
selves that we, in the power of Christ, can give them." 

"If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of 
His." 

It is our design in this chapter to show by the simplest, 
easily comprehended illustrations, the Spirit of Christ in 
action. Someone has said, "It is our instinctive words 
and actions (on the impulse of the moment) which reveal 
the true state of our hearts." We are not judged to be re- 
ligious by the fluency of our prayers and testimonies, 
but by the Spirit of Christ in us, enabling us to show the 
spirit of Christ through us, in daily life. If it is true the 
manifestation of Christ-like tempers and dispositions in 

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44 Walking as He Walked, 

His followers have influenced thousands to accept Him, 
it is also true the inconsistent spirit shown by countless 
thousands in His visible church has driven multitudes 
from Him. 

Professors of holiness need to reflect. They claim to 
have caught the very mind of Christ and to love Him and 
all mankind with Perfect Love. From them, especially, 
un-Christlike manifestations of temper will work untold 
damage. The world and church justly expect from pro- 
fessors of so much, that Christ-like tempers shall appear. 

If we are testy and heated in argument, and, as the 
world says, "get hot in the collar," so do they; only more 
consistently ; without claiming the high state of grace we 
do. We may say it is our positive and nervous way of 
speaking, and that we are of a peculiar temperament, 
but "what we are speaks so loud they cannot hear what 
we say." "A pure heart has a hard time showing itself 
off through a harsh voicel" Neither does a harsh, stern, 
set face look much like perfect love. It is sometimes said, 
"I would like to have it so it will show in my face;" then, 
brother, sister, get it in your heart. One encouragement 
for sharp natures there is in grace as well as music, such 
a thing as transposition from sharps to flats. Those 
keyed up to high "G" may have the harsh notes elim- 
inated. High keyed natures will never in a million years 
impress beholders with the sweetness of Perfect Love. 

Wrote a subscriber to the editor of a religious weekly 
(shame to say it, he claimed holiness),"! know I have been 



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converted and sanctified, but what is that in me, when 
I chastise my children, makes me feel like I could half 
kill them?" Maybe he thought it was righteous indigna- 
tion ; or his positive temper- (ament) , or his peculiar make- 
up, or a mistake in judgment, of the head, and not of the 
heart. But, in plain English, we know exactly what 
ailed him and all his kind — The Devil in him! Let a 
man, if he will, in a fit of uncontrollable anger, knock the 
children down, abuse his stock, kick the cat and dog 
about, and slam the door as though it were shot from a 
powerful cannon, but, in God's name, let him not pro- 
fess holiness while acting thus, or any degree of gracel 

Don and Dan. 

Years ago in Virginia the writer's youngest brother, 
then a boy of near ten, was feeding two large Newfound- 
land dogs, Don and Dan by name. He held the food in 
his hand and called them one at a time by name. Dan 
came first. He was an animal you felt instinctively you 
could not trust. His visage wore a cruel, fierce look — 
just the kind of a dog to snap you without notice. He 
came with a cruel, fierce, cur-like snarl, and snapped and 
snarled and growled and grabbed the food in a most un- 
lovely manner. The little fellow saw how despicable 
was his mood, and with an expression of profound dis- 
gust and contempt, turned from Dan and called Don, 
who had been standing nearby watching the proceedings 
and patiently waiting his turn. He immediately came, 



46 Walking as He Walked, 

with, it seemed to the writer, a halo of gentleness crowning 
his every movement and expression — (we were about to 
say he came as gentle as a woman, but, alas! observation 
prevents us from conscientiously making this compari- 
son ; as gentle as she ought to be, being of the gentler sex). 
Carefully and cautiously Don approached the little fel- 
low's hand and as gently as possible took the food; it 
seemed to us, all the while smiling with gratitude. The 
boy's face beamed with admiration and approval, and 
quickly comprehending the difference between the spirits 
of the two animals, patting Don on the head, he said: 
"That's right, Don, old boy, you are a Christian!" 
Dear reader, if such a beautiful spirit of gentleness is 
admirable and noticeable in an animal by a mere boy, 
would it not be in you> who profess to belong fully to Him? 
The manifestation of Christlike tempers amid those about 
us with explosive elements giving frequent vent is an 
unanswerable argument of the power of God's grace to 
sanctify. They look for this. Believe none genuine 
that does not have this stamp. "We were gentle among 
you," wrote Paul, "even as a nurse cherisheth her chil- 
dren." O, for this Christlike gentleness permeating 
heart and life of all His followers! 

Liz. 

Some years ago we were conducting a meeting in one 
of our western states. A sister, who had been a scold — 
a regular Xanthippe, was led into the experience of the 



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sanctified life. She went home with face beaming and 
heart full of her new found joy. Her husband could 
hardly believe but there was some mistake. It could 
not be possible, Liz, as he called her, had been sweetened 
up. He thought he would test the genuineness of her 
experience at the first opportunity. So when she asked 
him to black her shoes he saw the desired opportunity 
had come, and proceeded to do as requested, only, for 
good measure, he blackened the bottom of her white 
skirt. If Liz were not as she claimed, he soliloquized, 
now was his time to hear from her. But, instead of 
chasing him with the rolling pin or broom handle, or se- 
verely lashing him with her tongue in old-time Xanthippe 
fashion, Liz simply folded her arms and looked at him, 
he said, most like an angel. "I declare, Liz," was his 
amazed response, "I did not think holiness would do as 
much for anyone as it has done for you. There must be 
something in it after all!" Exactly what the world thinks 
when it sees real samples of Holy Livingl 

"I Wish Pop Would Act Like That Around Home." 

Dr. Randall, of the Epworth League, tells the story 
of a minister who was reputed for his kindness (to others) . 
If he saw you on the street he was just so affable, con- 
genial, and friendly. You would receive the most cor- 
dial of greetings. He was so pleased to see you, hoped 
you were well, also your wife, family, and near relatives. 
He also trusted all your business interests were prosper- 



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ing. His little boy overheard someone boasting of his 
father's kindness and gush, and it puzzled him; he had 
not seen it. In his perplexity he hung his head and 
grunted, "Umph! I wish pop would act like that around 
home!" Amen, home is an excellent place to act like 
that and reveal the spirit of Christ. The Psalmist said, 
'I will walk before God in mine own house with a per- 
fect heart." A good place to begin. Here restraint is 
off and our true selves shine forth. Dr. S. A Keene's 
daughter, observing her father's Christlike home life, 
said, "My father is the most Christlike man I ever saw. 1 * 
Reader, could your loved ones so say of your life? They 
know where you live, and if they cannot and do not give 
a similar witness to your life, is it not because to do so 
would compromise their sense of truth? Do you know 
it is literally true: "Such as I have, give I unto thee?" 
That is, you are giving out to the loved ones in the home, 
friends, and neighbors, just exactly such as you have. 
What if they now possessed as much Christliness as you 
have? If they were as sweet as you are? If they now 
enjoyed as much of the Divine favor as you enjoy? 
Honest, would you like them to have such as you have? 
Would they be any better off if they only had what you 
have? Do you believe in and enjoy your type enough 
to want others to have it? Some time since we saw a 
drummer's suit case with the following inscription: "We 
believe in the house we represent and the goods we 
handle." Instantly an Amen leaped from our heart and 



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we said, "Yes, so do we, with all our heart, and we want 
all the world and the church to have 'such as we have. 1 " 
Would it embarrass you if your daughters did as Dr. 
Keene's did — bore testimony to your home dispositions 
as they really are? We fear this course would bring 
many flushes of shame. A lady who had been baptized 
by immersion said before us and her husband, "I have 
all you preach." Instantly her husband blurted out, 
"No, she hasn't, she gets angry." Suppose when you 
were testifying, some near loved one would chime in and 
tell what they knew of your tempers when you were not 
in camp meeting, swung along by swing singing and the 
enthusiasm of the occasion? I say, suppose so? Would 
you not be embarrassed? 

It Did Not Take, Did It? 

Dr. Keene tells of a sister standing up on the test, 
"How many have been baptized by immersion?" Pres- 
ently she felt a little hand tugging away at her dress 
sleeve and saw an eager little face peering into hers and 
heard the little voice ask the eager question, "Ma, you 
wasn't baptized, was you?" "Hush! Of course, I've 
been baptized." "But," persisted the little questioner, 
"But it didn't take, did it, ma?" She remembered 
vividly just shortly before being vaccinated, and how it 
had taken — the swollen, feverish arm, and the pain, and 
the restless nights; and she innocently thought if her 
"ma" had really been baptized it ought to have taken 



50 Walking as He Walked, 

and be shown by some visible change in her life. Ex- 
actly ; the little girls and boys know if our profession has 
done us any good or not, they know if we have the Spirit 
of Christ, without which we are none of His\ 

We remember when quite young, observing a young 
lady closely, who had joined the church, to see if there 
was "anything in it." She was the same old girl after 
as before, and the impression was powerful on our young 
life. Our prejudice was confirmed, joining church and 
profession did not make Christians, but HAVING THE 
SPIRIT OF CHRIST. The world justly says, "I'll 
watch him and see," and it is honest enough to respect 
those who live the Christ-spirited life. 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 

CHAPTER VII. 

HIS MAGNETIC LIFE. 

"There was a holy magnetism about Him which drew 
people unto Him. It is so often written, ' They came unto 
Him. 1 They drew near unto Him. Multitudes 'fol- 
lowed Him. 1 and 'were gathered together 1 unto Him. 
Publicans and sinners drew near unto Him to hear Him. 
The little children felt his magnetism. Mothers instinctive- 
ly drew near and thrust their little ones into His arms. A 
strange, sweet attractiveness, a holy magnetism, a heavenly 
power, a strong drawing power, dwelt in Him. "People 
would drop business, quit home, travel far, to be near and 
hear Him. This holy attractiveness was peculiar to Jesus, 
and just such magnetism, in kind {not in degree), exhales 
from the believer who is anointed with the Holy Ghost. 11 

It is our purpose in this chapter to demonstrate and 
illustrate the proposition that all who have truly been 
partakers of His spirit have emanating from their lives 
in kind, though not in degree, a Christlike magnetism 
that convinces and draws men to God. We make the 

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statement without fear of contradiction, if all nominal 
Christians had imbibed as largely at the fountain of 
living water as examples herein given, a similar power 
to influence and bless men would flow from their 
lives. 

Christ in a man's life cannot be hidl He says of His 
followers, "I am glorified in them." Literally, scholars 
tell us, "I burst forth in them in glory." The normal con- 
dition of their lives is one which continually glorifies God. 
To illustrate. We were passing through Richmond, Va., 
enroute to Va. camps. A friend said, "You will meet at 
the Union Depot this morning a sister you never saw 
before, but you will know her." "Know her," we re- 
plied, "How?" "O," said he, "she has peace all over her 
face." "All right, I'll recognize her if she wears that 
badge." We had not looked long among the many 
travelers until we saw a bright, sun-shiny face, beaming 
with heaven's light and radiant with peace. Hastening 
to her side, and tipping our hat, we said, "You are sister 

M , bound for the camp meeting, are you not?" 

"Yes," was the prompt reply. Christ in one's life will 
out. 

He saw fully enthroned in her heart, and any one could 
tell by a look at her radiant, spiritual face she was a child 
of the King. Everywhere she goes with her beaming 
face people take knowledge of her that she has been with 
Jesus, and glorify God for the grace given her. 



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"O, It Was Mother's Way!" 

Two young girls suddenly gave their hearts to Jesus 
and applied to their pastor for membership in the church. 
He interrogated them what led to their conversion. "O," 
they replied, "It was mother's way; she was always hap- 
py and singing. One day, after she had swept the house, 
the boys came in with mud on their boots and littered the 
floor with dirt. Mother kept on singing as she again 
brushed up the dirt. We said, 'Why don't you scold the 
boys, mother? We believe you would go on singing if 
we were dying.' 'Yes,' was the response, 'I know I 
would if I knew you were dying happy and saved.' We 
could stand it no longer, so, going to our room, we cried 
out, 'O, God, we must have what mother has,' and now 
we are converted. It was mother's way that did it." 
God help the mother who reads these lines to see what 
her influence on her loved ones might be if she were only 
in proper touch with God! 

"I Owe It All to You." 

In the early days of our Christian life we worked in a 
rail-road office. By our side sat a large, portly man who 
was skeptical concerning things religious. The daily 
routine of his work, eating, drinking, and chewing to- 
bacco constituted about all the pleasure he derived from 
life. While not universally disliked, his age and per- 
sonality kept him from being a favorite with the younger 



54 Walking as He Walked, 

men ; consequently he was largely left alone to his work, 
which he thoroughly understood, and to himself. He 
had but recently moved from a distant town and felt like 
a stranger in a strange land. Somehow our heart, sym- 
pathy, and love always go out to characters who, for any 
reason, are set at naught by others. We resolved to be 
kind and courteous to him. 

The work piled up high on our desk and he would fre- 
quently remark, "You are swamped, snowed under," etc. 
But God's grace kept us from murmuring or complain- 
ing. We were cheerful and replied, "O, there will be 
some way out; we will get through somehow." So the 
days came and went until God's call to preach was felt 
and through prayer the way was opened for us to go to 
Indiana to school. After a year's absence we returned 
to Virginia and called on our old friend at the office. As 
we entered we noticed his face lighted up unusually, and 
as he reached out his great hand the tears, unbidden, 
rolled down his cheeks. Presently he said, with evident 
emotion, "I am a changed man, and I owe it all to you." 
We were surprised and asked, "What did we ever do to 
change you?" "O," he replied, "you sat there by my 
side and showed me how. You were patient when your 
work increased and did not murmur, but kept patiently 
at it without complaint, and I was convinced there is 
something in it, and I have joined the church and am a 
changed man and owe it all to you. Your spirit showed 
me how." Shortly after, the dear man was taken home 



or Holiness in Action 55 

to heaven, guided there by, through God's enabling grace 
alone, a manifestation of the Spirit of Christ. 

"Fve Seen It." 

A brother (newspaper editor), who was stone deaf, 
arose one morning in service with a wondrously illuminat- 
ed face. Said he, to the surprise of all, as he had 
attended but a few times, "I have a pure heart." We 
asked if he had heard the preaching. "No," he replied, 
"I haven't heard a word of it. But I've seen it illustrated 
in my home." The Evangelist's wife, though paying 
her board, in addition to the care of her baby, had with 
good spirit pitched in and helped his wife with the house 
work, singing, as she went about her duties. He ob- 
served her, saw it was genuine, went to God in prayer, 
and said, u O Lord, I want it like the sample I've seen!" 
Yes, it is holiness that wins, not the mere parrot pro- 
fession of it. The real life invariably gives influence and 
creates hunger and makes converts to the grace. 

The Psychological Moment. 

We were in attendance at Conference in the West. A 
Revival Symposium was on the programme, if the reader 
knows what that is. Each preacher was supposed to tell 
what he had seen of "Revival Power" under his personal 
ministry. One after another the brethren arose and told 
their stories and advanced their opinions. Presently one 



56 Walking as He Walked, 

young man arose and confessed he had never seen much 
if anything under his own ministry of "Revival Power/ ' 
(There was a reason.) But he believed there was a 
"Psychological Moment" at which men could be saved, 
and it was our duty to be on our watch tower and look 
out for the psychological moment's approach and then 
cast the net. (Of course, nothing was said of the souls 
who would perish in hell while waiting for P. M. to 
come.) He was quickly followed by a young Evangelist 
who challenged his fallacious position. He said, "Breth- 
ren, I don't know much about the 'psychological mo- 
ment,' but I have noticed there are some Christians who 
carry about with them so much of the 'Spirit of Christ' 
and whose lives are so fragrant with heavenly love and 
sweetness, and who remind us so much of Jesus that 
WHEREVER THEY GO, THE PSYCHOLOGICAL 
MOMENT GOES WITH THEM AND THE RE- 
VIVAL IS ON! 

It is said Alfred Cookman was so Christlike in appear- 
ance, and from long seasons of communion with his Lord, 
so imbibed and caught the Spirit of Christ that his very 
carriage and bearing, as he walked the street, reminded 
people so much of Jesus they would stop and gaze at 
him when he was squares away. 

The same (in kind) Christly bearing and holy magne- 
tism which abode in Jesus God would put on us. How 
often it is written, "Men drew near unto Him, and mul- 
titudes came together to hear Him." "Mothers in- 



or Holiness in Action 57 

stinctively thrust their little ones into His arms." They 
felt they could trust Him; He was their friend. O, for 
this holy, Christlike magnetism in all His followers, 
drawing others to Him! How many are repellant and re- 
pulsive, obnoxious, because un-Christlike. The homli- 
est may be magnetic. The Spirit of Christ will make all 
lowly in heart and companionable. How many Holiness 
People owe the world and church an apology for so gross- 
ly misrepresenting Jesus to them! Max Muller said the 
Christianity of the twentieth century is "both a mis- 
interpretation and a misrepresentation." It is not the 
Christianity of Christ and the Apostles. Our impartial 
observation would apply similar language to much that 
goes under the name of holiness. "If they have it, we 
don't want it," is a common expression of opposers, and 
more's the pity it is often justifiable. When these same 
ones see the genuine, they recognize it, and go in for it, 
and get it. 

"Come Unto Me." 

It is said a famous sculptor, after working long on a 
life size statue, in marble, of the Man of Galilee, called 
his little girl in and asked her whom it represented. She 
looked a moment and then, with face all aglow, said, 
"O, I know," and quoted, "Come unto Me all that labor 
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Surely, 
"He could not be hid," and if recognized in marble He 
would be if we reproduced His character in our lives. 



58 Walking as He Walked, 

A poor beggar, half starved, was walking the streets of 
London, peering intently into the faces of the passers-by, 
studying of whom he could likely ask an alms without re- 
buff. A lawyer and clergyman, eminent for his Christ- 
likeness, were coming toward him. An instant's look 
into the lawyer's hard, cruel face convinced him he would 
get no help there, and, looking up into the Spirit-illu- 
minated face of the servant of God, spontaneously cried 
out the impression the beaming face had made on his 
poor heart: "O, Mr. with heaven in your face, give 
me a penny." 

A sister passed us on the street car in Chicago, whose 
face wore a veritable halo of glory. As she came toward 
us, we were so sure of the Christ enthroned in her heart 
reflecting the celestial light on the countenance, we could 
not refrain from saying as she passed, "Praise the Lord." 
She recognized the pass- word and replied, "Glory to 
God," and passed on. We never saw her before or since. 
Another confirmation of the fact Christ in the life can- 
not be hid. There are many similar illustrations. For 
example, the French going to hear Fletcher (the saintly 
Episcopalian) preach when they could not understand a 
word. They went to see the glory of God illuminate his 
face. Or the girl who was converted by a saintly servant 
of God merely looking at her or "beaming on her face," 
as she expressed it. Or yet of the woman who said of 
a company of "full cup" Christians, "Their faces looked 
as though they were illuminated with electric lights." 



or Holiness in Action 59 

We close this chapter with the touching story of 
Father Ogden, of whom Brother Smith tells. He was a 
superannuated octogenarian preacher of New York 
whose declining years beautifully illustrate the Spirit of 
Christ in action. 

His wife sent him to the grocery store, kept by a very 
profane man, for supplies. He patiently set out and 
came back with a number of things not sent for and also 
having forgotten many things ordered. His wife said, 
"Dear, will you take them back and get what I want?" 
"Yes, dear, I'm sorry I'm so forgetful." Off he trudges, 
slowly and patiently, to the store. The storekeeper, on 
learning his errand, breaks out in a stream of horrible 
oaths and abuse, reproaching the poor old man for his 
forgetfulness. Father Ogden waited until he finished, 
and, lifting his trembling, palsied hand, said fervently: 
"The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, the love of God, the 
Father, and the communion and fellowship of the Holy 
Ghost be with you ever more. Amen." "What do you 
mean?" said the now astonished blasphemer. "O," re- 
plied Father Ogden, "it has been so long since I had a 
chance to bless those who curse me, I thought I would 
not miss my opportunity." Dear professor, is this the 
way your experience works when you are under fire? 
Do you bless those who curse you? Do you return good 
for evil? Do you pray for those who despitefully use 
you? 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 

CHAPTER VIII. 

He withdrew Himself. 
Luke 5:16. 

Here is the prime reason of spiritual weakness, power- 
lessness, and inefficiency everywhere prevalent; here is 
the why of seekers not constantly at our altars; here is 
the cause for so little manifest pungent conviction for 
sin; for so little of the supernatural power of the Lord 
present to heal ; for so few bright conversions ; here is the 
why of personal failure in life, in fact, of all failure — of 
unctionless, powerless sermons — Ye have not with Christ- 
like insistence drawn yourself apart — torn yourself away 
to some desert place to pray I 

Jesus, though surrounded by the multitudes clamoring 
for His attention and pressing to be near Him, many of 
whom He had just personally touched and healed and 
who consequently felt a claim on His time; and also, no 
doubt, by His mother, brothers, sisters, and disciples, 
still insisted on one thing of paramount importance to the 
Son of God. This one dominant thing He would allow no 

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62 Walking as He Walked, 

time, nor place, nor circumstance or consideration, or de- 
mands of the people, His loved ones, or disciples, to dis- 
suade Him from. He literally tore Himself away from 
the crowd pressing Him for help and healing — elbowed 
His way through them. He said to all virtually, "Excuse 
me, I have an important date to commune with and inter- 
cede the Father. I must keep this appointment'" "AND 
HE WITHDREW HIMSELF INTO THE WILDER- 
NESS AND PRAYEDr He drew, or dragged, liter- 
ally, Himself away. If He found it necessary to thus 
insist on prayer time, how much more shall we in this 
busy age of multiplied duties, activities, and demands 
on our time, many of them important and necessary, 
have to insist on drawing ourselves away from legitimate 
cares, social duties, society of friends, loved ones, and 
walk as He walked in His prayer life. Let none say, "I 
cannot find time, "in face of this example of Christ's draw- 
ing away from a multitude of folks and duties. Shall we tell 
you how? — "Excuse me, wife, children, social duties, 
etc., etc., I must go now and be with God." 

Unless we resolve, with strong resolve, and insist on 
prayer time, it will not be ours. The "Inspired Word" 
speaks of "stirring one's self up to pray." "No man 
stirs himself up to pray." It is fallacious to wait for a 
spirit of prayer to come on us. We may now follow Jesus 
in His insistence on prayer-time, stir ourselves up to pray, 
go at it until we have a spirit of prayer, and then pray 
because we have it, and it spontaneously prays. 



or Holiness in Action 63 

It is amazing to us, how, in the face of this example of 
the insistence of the Son of God to keep prayer appoint- 
ment, professors of Perfect Love can claim to be beyond 
the necessity of special seasons of prayer. They claim 
to pray on the run, but our observation is they run out 
of tenderness, sweetness, Christlikeness, heavenly unc- 
tion, and we fear unless they awake to this fearful de- 
ception of hell they will run out of God, salvation, and 
heaven, and run into hell. God help us draw ourselves 
often awayl 

There are some valuable lessons drawn from this brief 
statement : 

I. 

Jesus Withdrew Himself When Surrounded by a Great 
Opportunity for Service! 

Time spent alone with God is never lost. Contrary to 
popular notion, His example illustrates the truest, best, 
and most effective service done for God is through the 
power of "Intercession." The greatest thing anyone can 
do for God in the short space of life's allotted days is to be 
much alone with God\ One only has real power to grip 
men and fasten awakening conviction on them in pro- 
portion to time spent in secret with God. 

When great multitudes came together to hear and be healed 
by Him of their infirmities, He withdrew Himself into the 
wilderness and prayedl Think of it! He withdrew Him- 



64 Walking as He Walked, 

self from what we, in our spiritual blindness, would call 
a great opportunity for service and into which we would, 
Sampson-like, go, in the energy of the flesh and shake 
ourselves (without prayer) as formerly when under the 
anointing of the Spirit, but, Alas! no one else would shake. 

Alas for the workers who are going without the unction 
which always comes from withdrawing ourselves from 
men to some secret desert place, alone with God! They 
may make noble efforts, deliver great orations, preach elo- 
quent sermons {even holiness), and the people may say, 
"Choice diction, fine rhetoric, easy style, well rounded pe- 
riods, original, striking, beautiful, sublime conceptions of 
God, perfect language, graceful position and gestures, — an 
intellectual feast; but they know as well as the speaker 
the unction and anointing of God was not there to grip 
and pierce men to the heart with conviction. The 
writer has learned that poor sermons saturated by the com- 
munion and intercession of the u alone with God" periods 
have a power to cut like a knife and bring men to a con- 
sciousness of their standing with God where great intel- 
lectual efforts fail to do more than entertain and please. 
// the ministry spent time in prayer proportionately to time 
consumed in intellectual preparation, their preaching would 
be more effectual and the world would be turned; upside 
down for God\ 

The revival that is coming will not by led by those who 
claim long drawn out seasons of prayer should be few, or 



or Holiness in Action 65 

who lean to "Higher Criticism," or contend for a more 
highly cultured ministry, or sneer at holiness; or yet, by 
those who are waiting for a vague historic period, or psy- 
chological moment in which God is especially pleased 
(they say) to save souls (though they may plunge into 
hell by the millions while waiting for these periods and 
moments to roll around), but it will come through the 
Lord's little ones who walk as Jesus walked in His lonely 
nights on the mountain, or with Him, up a great while 
before day, and withdrawing apart into the desert to 
pray. When it comes, as in Wales, philosophers, psy- 
chologists, officials, leading preachers, D. D.'s, L. L. D.'s, 
will be thousands of leagues from touch with the mighty 
sweeping power of the Holy Ghost. And God, who ever 
delights to confound the wise and prudent and bring to 
naught their carnal wisdom, will set them aside and have 
some humble, praying Evan Roberts at the helm, leading 
to mighty victory the Lord's hosts on true spiritual lines, 
with no compromise with, or quarter to, sin. 

II. 

What Does This Example Mean? The Son of God 
withdrawing Himself to pray! Why should He need to 
pray at all? He was holy, full of the Holy Ghost! The 
only explanation to our mind of this oft repeated habit of 
Jesus is that He used up spiritual energy in God's work 
and was under necessity, as a man, to have seasons of 
prayer to replenish His supplies, refresh His soul, and for 



66 Walking as He Walked, 

Divine Guidance, as well as to make intercession for 
transgressors. 

In the immediate context He had just been healing 
leprosy, casting out devils, and laying hands on all that 
were sick, and healing them. That this process con- 
sumed spiritual energy is seen in the healing of the 
woman who said, "If I may but touch the hem of His 
garment I shall be whole of my plague," and when she 
touched Him He turned and said, "Who touched Mel" 
because He perceived VIRTUE HAD GONE OUT 
OF HIM\ The touch of faith extracted virtue from 
Him. There is no break with God, but simply spiritual 
energy used up in the miracles and mighty works He did, 
and He must, as man, keep in touch with God through 
prayer and constantly replenish exhausted supplies and "in 
this momentary dependence on God for the Spirit's help. 
Dr. Mahan says, "He is our example." 

So we logically deduce : If the Son of God was under 
necessity of momentary dependence on God ("the Son can 
do nothing of Himself, the Father dwelling in me, He 
doeth the works") and of replenishing and renewing His 
supplies of the Spirit of God to maintain strength to do God's 
work, the most holy and advanced may have these special 
seasons for the renewing of "Spiritual Strength" with the 
most perfect consistency with their profession of holinessl 

"But," says a perplexed one, "am I not full of the Holy 
Ghost, and is He not all I need, ever present in me, to 
meet all life's demands? And if I have Him in His ful- 



or Holiness in Action 67 

ness, why need I seek refreshment and enlargement? 
{Observe we do not mean a third crisis, but refreshment con- 
tinuously throughout life as needed.) We answer in the 
face of the example now under consideration, "Was not 
the Son of God also full of the Holy Ghost, and yet we 
have here prima facie evidence of His custom of with- 
drawing Himself when in the presence of a great, pressing, 
urgent opportunity for service, to pray, and coming back 
from the season of communion with God with new power 
on Him, and present to heal in spite of ridiculing and op- 
posing Pharisees and doctors of the law. Let this ex- 
ample of Jesus suffice to answer your question, "How can 
it be?" The how we know not. It passes understand- 
ing. The fact, however, remains. I know I am full of 
physical strength and vigor and still I often nourish my 
body and refresh it with food. So it is with the soul, 
it is full, still frequently refreshed. 

Dr. Sheridan Baker, eminent teacher and writer on 
the deep things of God, makes this point clear: 

"Believers may be filled with the Spirit, as a settled re- 
ligious state or habit of the soul, and yet need these gracious 
refreshings more or less frequently, and some more frequent- 
ly than others. This is according to the analogy of nature 
and is as rational as it is Scriptural. Persons free from 
physical disease of every kind, and tl filled with natural 
vigor," (mark) nevertheless must take physical nourishment 
two and three times every day to supply the waste of their 
vital forces. So believers may be spiritually healthy and 



68 Walking as He Walked, 

filled with spiritual vigor {the Spirit), and yet need these 
spiritual refreshings ; and if they feel a sense of qualmish- 
ness or disrelish to come to an altar of prayer or anything 
proper to receive spiritual refreshing, they should be alarmed 
at their, condition. IF PAUL, WHEN HE WROTE 
THE LETTER TO THE ROMANS, NEEDED RE- 
FRESHINGS, AND URGED THIS GREAT 
CHURCH TO STRIVE TOGETHER FOR THIS 
END, SURELY ALL CHRISTIANS, HOWEVER 
ADVANCED IN SPIRITUALITY, NEED THE 
SAME." 

Many claim exemption from necessity to pray for ef- 
fusions of the Holy Ghost imparting greater effectiveness 
in service because they have received the Holy Ghost as 
their sanctifier. But we are contending for facts. Is 
the effectiveness manifest in their work? // any have 
the conceit they are now as possessed of God as they may be 
possessed of Him and anointed and used to the utmost 
limit of their capacity or God's ability, they are welcome to 
it. The writer's soul is clean, satisfied of this, and full, 
still he is on the stretch for more of God. 

Finney would frequently find himself used up, so to 
speak, in the service of God, not possessed as fully as 
formerly, with power in service. Said he, "I would set 
apart a day for fasting and prayer, humbling and crying 
to God for the cause, when there would be a return and 
increase, and I could go out and do more for God in a 
short while than without it in months." 



or Holiness in Action 69 

III. 

He Withdrew Himself When in Danger of Popularity. 

"But so much more there went a. fame abroad of Him, 
and great multitudes came to hear and be healed by 
Him and He withdrew Himself into the wil- 
derness and prayed." 

"Some men's praise ought to fill us with alarm and 
drive us to our knees." Have not many been shorn of 
power here? Not that Jesus felt any inclination to yield 
to such temptation, still it is significant (and our ex- 
ample) that here and previously when tempted by the 
devil to give place to popularity He withdrew and com- 
muned with the Father. Is not the ambition of the 
majority to gain what He here spurned — Fame? To 
gain the commendation of the people? To please all 
men, which the Apostle Paul said if a man do he cannot 
please God? 

Said a popular pastor-friend to the writer: "There 
are certain truths which I would like to preach, but can- 
not, because out there, and over here, and yonder, sits 
someone who would be displeased if I do." We thought 
God would be displeased if he did not. How many are 
failing to follow Jesus in His contempt for the opinions 
of men! Men knew where He stood. They knew He 
had other than a string for a backbone. "Master, we 
know thou art true and carest not for the person of any 
man." How many have fallen into this snare of the 



70 Walking as He Walked, 

devil that if they pleased all by their affability they 
would first win men to their own congenial personalities 
and then to Christ! Alas, how often they have gotten 
them no further than to themselves! God help us seek 
popularity where it counts: at the court of God! 

"Woe unto you when all men speak well of you, for 
so did their fathers of the false prophets" But, "blessed 
are ye (now) when men shall revile you and separate you 
from their company and say all manner of evil against 
you falsely, for my sake, for so persecuted they the {true) 
prophets which were before you" 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 

CHAPTER IX. 

"The power of the Lord was present to heal." Luke 
5:17. 

Christ worked in a changed atmosphere; a sort of 
"Halo of Power" accompanied His ministry. 

How hard, and almost useless, to tug, exhort, beg, and 
work, and give our logical propositions and other efforts 
to get men saved until the result of our text is on us! 
Then we do not need to drag to the altar and argue into 
salvation and sanctification by syllogism. They come! 
They pray! They hear from heaven! They secure par- 
don and sanctification, when the power of the Lord is pres- 
ent to heall 

We are learning how futile is "Revival" effort without 
a demonstration of this text. The church and world are 
dying for lack of manifestations of what the real power 
of God on His people, clergy and laity, will accomplish. 
Instead of berating church and world for decay of con- 
science and being Gospel hardened, many of us owe both 
an apology for not having this power accompany our 
ministries, which makes it comparatively easy for them 

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72 Walking as He Walked, 

to believe and be saved. "What must I do to be saved, 
is the question the world asks when Pentecost comes to the 
church". The trouble is not so much with them, lethargic 
conscience, Gospel hardened, etc., as with us, for "When 
He {the Holy Ghost) is come to you (disciples) He will 
(through you) convict the world of sinl" No trouble then 
to get folks out. At this time the multitudes surrounded 
Him. We have seen thousands assemble on plain and 
in forest to see this text demonstrated. It settles the 
order problem. God polices the grounds. The interest 
and attention problems are also settled: "All eyes were 
fastened on Him;" no one went to sleep. The vital power 
in the speaker to speak, is also the vital power in the 
hearer, enabling him to attentively listen. The man who 
has this power on his ministry does not say, "/ invite 
your earnest attention to the subject" but proceeds to take 
it. People are all attention when he speaks. He is a 
true "spell-binder." 

The absence of the power of the Lord present to heal in 
church services accounts for so little interest in themX 

I. 

It Was Power, "OF THE LORD." 

"The power of the Lord was present to heal." 
Not the power of learning, culture, titles, degrees, of- 
ficial standing, reputation, personality, eloquence, or 
rhetoric, logic, oratory, homiletics, so highly esteemed 



or Holiness in Action 73 

among men ; it was not the power of subtle schemes and 
propositions we use to trap men into profession ; but pure 
power of God operating directly on men, bringing them 
into contact with Himself. 

Power of the Lordl Who can comprehend the power 
of God! Who define it? Limitless! exhaustless! See 
it in creation; from nothing it creates all things; speaks 
worlds into existence and upholds and sustains them! 
"Piles the mountains up six miles high! Hollows a bed 
in the earth five miles deep for the sea!" The heavens 
are the work of the fingers of this power. "When I con- 
sider the heavens the work of Thy fingers. 11 "Not hard 
for God to make worlds; merely exerts His fingers." 
To cast out demons from men is not hard when linked up 
with this power, "If I by the finger of God cast out dev- 
ils." "Power belongeth unto God." "The excellency 
of the power is of God, and not of us." Nothing too hard 
for God! All things are possible with God." Power is 
any form of energy available for doing any kind of work. 
This power is that form of energy available in God for do- 
ing God's workl We have as much power as the opposing 
obstacles we overcome; that much, no more! 

This power is thousands of leagues beyond (in doing 
God's kind of work (spiritual) Aggressive Evangelism 
Committees, Conferences, and Forward Movements that 
get together and discuss, discuss, "how," and "method," 
and "ways" and "means" of doing His work. It has 
communities in the throes of old fashioned, agonizing con- 



74 Walking as He Walked, 

viction before they can get newspaper puffs and dodgers 
before the people, telling what they are going to do\ The 
power of God would be present if half as much time were 
spent in humiliation, heart searching, surrender, and 
prayer, and faith for it, as is spent in discussion, sugges- 
tion, and debate. 

In this age of skepticism, doubt, and unbelief, even among 
holiness professors, as well as nominal Christianity, which 
cries, "We may not see the power of God as formerly," this 
writer wants to confess that unbelief fires his soul with faith, 
and he takes his stand along with men of faith and declares 
his faith in the powet of God. He believes, "the power of 
God is just the same today, it doesn't matter what the people 
say." And rather than believe we may not see it as former- 
ly, he believes we may see far greater manifestations than 
have ever been seen in any age. A Scripture to prove it: 

"Call upon me and I will show thee great and mighty 
things, that thou knowest not of," i. e., there is no precedent 
in history as great as He is able to show. "Thou knowest 
not of." You never read of as great things as He will 
do if price of proper calling on Him is paid. 

What Doth Hinder? 

Let us give just two verses which clearly fix the re- 
sponsibility of lax power. They contain the reason for 
all powerless lives: 

"Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or 
have I no power to deliver?" 



or Holiness in Action 75 

"Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it can- 
not save; neither is His ear heavy, that it cannot hear 
(your prayers); But, (the real reason) your iniquities 
have separated between you and your God, and your sins 
have hid His face from you, (so) that He will not hear. 
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers 
with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue 
has muttered perverseness." Here is the cause, sin, vi- 
olated consciences. The confessions to us of ministers, 
of living in secret sin, and violating their consciences over 
periods of years have been shocking in the extreme. A 
powerless life and ministry and sin go hand in hand! 
God, Almighty, awake deceived professors! Away with 
sin which hinders faith, and the power of former days is 
ours! 

The power of the Lord is a match for Twentieth Century 
conditions, worldliness, and Devill Amen. If we lived 
in the 5000,th century and conditions were proportionate- 
ly and increasingly bad, we would still believe in the su- 
periority of the power of the Lordl 



II. 



Self Effacement Necessary. 

11 The power of the Lord was present to heal." It is 
more manifest that His power is accomplishing the heal- 



76 Walking as He Walked, 

ing than "our sermon" or singing, or our oratory, or logic, 
or rhetoric, or homiletical order, etc. "We have this 
treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power 
may be 'of God' and not of 'us. 1 "We preach, not our- 
selves, but Christ Jesus, as Lord," We are, in a measure, 
set aside; when His power properly comes, "We stand 
still and see the salvation of God." We see Him do it. 
We are set aside and are willing men should know it is 
u God that worketh in us" and we are "not sufficient of 
ourselves, but our sufficiency is of God." So it was in 
Wales. Ever apparent, He had the pre-eminence. The 
Creator all in all, and the creature nothing. When one 
arose and tried the old, well known methods, firstly, 
secondly, thirdly, etc., the Holy Spirit was grieved and 
fled. But when the self -effaced Roberts, surcharged 
with the "power of the Lord," resumes control, speaking 
as the Spirit gives utterance, the power returns. Where 
are the men to follow his self-effacement to the point of 
letting the Holy Spirit, in that hour, tell them what they 
ought to say? Oh, they must have homiletical order and 
precision! But how much better is Holy Ghost order 
and spontaneity, to bring conviction! Study, of course, 
but above all li preach with the Holy Ghost sent down from 
heavenl" How many want it to appear, my sermon, my 
song, my work, is the accomplishing force! God is set 
aside. O, that we may learn fully what He would do 
through us if we were only sufficiently blotted out to let 
Him have the glory! 



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III. 
This Power Was Also Resident in Jesus. 

Wherever He went He precipitated it. "Jesus returned 
in the power of the Spirit." One day He entered the 
synagogue and testified: "The Spirit of the Lord is on 
me; this day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears." 
We read, "How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the 
Holy Ghost, who went about — i. e., from place to place — 
doing good." This power accompanied Him every- 
where He went. It was in connection with the Pente- 
costal experience they said: "These men who have 
turned the world upside down have come hither also." 
Everywhere Evan Roberts went there was a stir. "In 
a miniature counterpart we may have this power in us 
and carry it everywhere." Everywhere we go under 
the anointing of the Holy Spirit we expect and see things 
stir for God. We carry the psychological moment and 
the historic period with us, and whether these are due 
to roll around, bringing auspicious tokens of coming re- 
vival or not, the revival is on, wherever we land. Praise 
the Lord! 

IV. 

It Was the Power of Changed, God Impregnated At- 
mosphere. 

The power of the Lord was present there, in that at- 
mosphere — it was full, intense, thick, impregnated with 



78 Walking as He Walked, 

God! The Welsh revival was not a revival of preaching, 
but of a changed atmosphere — warm with God's pres- 
ence, which made it desirable and comparatively easy 
to find God, an atmosphere surcharged with God, which 
does the work of warning, alarming, convincing, draw- 
ing, persuading, and enabling men to find God in con- 
version and sanctification. "I am not changing men's 
hearts," said Evan Roberts, "God is present changing 
their hearts." This is why so much church and revival 
work is abortive; the solemnizing, awe inspiring pres- 
ence of God does not surcharge the atmosphere at the 
scene of action! God is not powerfully felt in it. There 
is something lacking. Something in it is displeasing to 
Him and He will not come and surcharge it until it is put 
away. 

// is all but useless to try to do God's work until by "In- 
tercession" the mighty power of God has been fought down 
from the skies, changing the atmosphere and creating a 
condition which makes it comparatively easy for men to be 
saved in. "It shall come to pass, whosoever shall call on 
the Lord {in pentecostal surroundings especially) shall be 
saved' 1 How we have pumped and tugged, and sweat, 
and worked, and exhorted, to get men to yield when 
God's power to heal was not present! And then how 
easily have we observed men come to God and find par- 
don and sanctification when the atmosphere had been 
changed by withdrawing and working the victory out 
on our knees! Here is the why of powerless services. 



or Holiness in Action 79 

The atmosphere has not been clarified by prayer and 

surcharged with God. "Jesus withdrew Himself 

and, directly, it is added, the power of the Lord was present 
to heal.'" 

The Lord waits to surcharge our revivals with such 
intense solemnity that men will feel the awe of His pres- 
ence and be compelled to think of eternal realities, death, 
judgment, hell, heaven, eternity. Finney's praying 
partner (more essential than a singing partner) would so 
prevail the supernatural on his ministry that strangers 
passing through communities where he labored would 
feel it and yield to God. Said an aged preacher to us, 
who lived at Oberlin during his pastorate there, from 
the agonizing prayer of Finney and Father Nash such 
an awful sense of God fastened on the people, that as they 
would leave the church after his sermons and walk down 
the boardwalks toward home, their shoes would squeak 
out Eternity! Eternity! Eternity! Eternity! 

Evan Roberts has a right to speak. He has demon- 
strated what a changed atmosphere will do: "We must 
fight heaven down, we must fight it down, we must fight it 
down now and here;" by prayer we must lodge on the 
consciences of the lost an intolerable conviction of sin. 
This is the only hope for the present pleasure loving age! 
They can be reached no other way, and won to God — 
we did not say to the church. The expressions are not 
synonymous, though they should be. 



80 Walking as He Walked, 

The early church labored in the changed atmosphere 
brought about through "giving themselves to prayer," 
so that strangers coming in their presence would cry 
out, falling down in their midst, "God is in you of a 
truth." This fact explains why such mighty revivals 
come to certain centers (e. g., holiness colleges); they 
have such a volume of incessant, persistent, determined 
prayer ascending that an atmosphere is created in which 
it is easy to find God. People speak of feeling God in it 
as they approach the campus. Again and again we have 
seen souls flock to the altar when there had been no 
preaching! Let us not look so much for the hindrances 
in others — but in ourselves. If we are properly sur- 
charged, victory and success is surel The next division 
shows 

V. 

This Power Was Present to Heal in Spite of Opposers 
who did not wish Him success — lawyers, doctors of the 
law, scribes, Pharisees, all of whom were His avowed 
enemies, and had repeatedly sought to trap Him. These 
classes now surround Him, but in spite of them, u the 
power of the Lord was present to heal them." In the very 
presence of those who do not wish the cause of holiness 
success, we may see God's power displayed. We have 
frequently seen souls get to the altar and to God in spite 
of intimidating pastors et al unpropitious influences. 
"Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of 



or Holiness in Action 81 

mine enemies." Ecclesiastics and officials may hope they 
are stamping the "fad" of holiness out, but in spite of 
them, yea, in their very presence, we may see the power 
of God sanctifying souls. 

VI. 

We said this Power was resident in Jesus, Still it is 
evident He lived in momentary dependence on God. 
"The Son can do nothing of Himself, the Father dwelling 
in Me doeth the works." It seems virtue went out of 
Him, at least He so perceived, and so said, and He was 
under necessity of waiting on God and replenishing His 
used up supplies. What other explanation is there of 
His frequent and protracted seasons of prayer? So 
thinks Dr. Asa Mahan — "Jesus, our example, as a man, 
in prayer and momentary dependence on God." 

VII. 

The Power Present to Heal Was Not Accidental 
Spiritual power and atmospheres are never so. Some 
one behind the scenes has met conditions. If I now have 
power, it is because of long drawn out seasons of agonizing 
intercession. A few lines back in the context reveals 
how through Jesus' example this power was and may be 
secured: "And Jesus withdrew Himself from the mul- 
titudes into the wilderness and prayed." Four or five lines 
further on it is added, "The power of the Lord was pres- 
ent to heal." There is an intimate connexion between 



82 Walking as He Walked, 

these verses. They are related. One explains the other. 
A few minutes morning and night" for Jesus' sake, amen," 
does not bring this spiritual power, but the special seasons 
of conflict do when we have it out with God, insist on victory, 
and pray throughl 

VIII. 

Power was present to "HEAL THEM" spiritually. 
This crowd was not only sick physically, but spiritually. 
Power was present to heal them, make them well. Not 
to have them catechised into the church, or confirmed 
(often in their sins) , or sign some drawn up propositions 
and assent to certain syllogisms, or confess Christ, or de- 
cide for Christ, or choose the preacher and church of 
their choice, or enroll them, or give the Evangelist the 
tips of their fingers in fashionable handshake. But to 
HEAL THEM in their souls and make them feel as 
good in their souls as a sick man in body, suddenly 
healed, would feel. Power present to regenerate and 
give the birth of the Spirit, and the witness of the Spirit 
bearing witness with their spirits that they were the 
children of God. All revival effort that falls short of 
this result is spurious. 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 

CHAPTER X. 

Christ, the Fearless Preacher. 

Walking as He walked in the fearless ministry of the 
word! Who will dare, in this compromising, man-pleas- 
ing age, follow Him in this? Where are the men who 
will unsheath their swords from their scabbards and wade 
through sham, pretense, formality, and formal godliness, 
fashion, pride, worldliness and secretism; and, like their 
Lord, fearlessly unmask, uncover, and expose hypocrisy 
in high places? If God can find them they shall be the 
harbingers of a church-wide revival that shall eventually 
be world-wide. 

I. 

Jesus Was Both a Destructive and Constructive Preacher. 
He tore down and built up. There is great objection 
to what are termed "destructive," or "digging" preachers. 
We object to them too if it is meant by the expression, 
those who undermine people's faith and preach them 
down just for the sake of gloating over the achievement. 
But, if John-the-Baptist-like, the preacher destroys in 

S3 



84 Walking as He Walked, 

love what needs destruction, to build up in the end, there 
is great need of such preachers. In fact, much in the 
modern church, and some things in the holiness move- 
ment need destruction. The type of men to do this 
work may be termed iconoclastic and void of love and 
sympathy. But how blind is this charge! The greater 
the preacher's love, the firmer and more unflinchingly 
will he drive the knife to the hilt. 

The prevalent judgment that John the Baptist was 
severe, stern, and harsh, is farthest from the truth. He 
was a tender-hearted, loving, sympathetic man, with too 
great love to let the churchmen of his day go quietly to 
hell unwarned, and unrebuked. He recognized the great- 
est calamity which could befall the human soul was to be 
lost forever in hell, and that strenuous, earnest, persistent 
labor to prevent so dire a calamity was the highest expression 
of courageous love — pre-eminently a labor of lovel 

God sent Jeremiah to "root out, pull down, throw 
down, and destroy," and then, after this necessary work 
of destruction, to "build up and plant." He was His 
"battle-axe" to destroy all that needed destruction. 
The one thing He had against certain false prophets of 
his day was that they healed slightly and did not discover 
the iniquity of His people. They were too tender to go 
to the bottom and offend. God wants destructive 
preachers of unflinching courage and backbone, who will 
go to the bottom of the sin question and relieve sin's 
disease altogether. 



or Holiness in Action 85 

A young doctor in Virginia, some years since, expressed 
a desire to help us. We were suffering intensely from a 
large carbuncle on the wrist. It had caused us many 
sleepless nights, fever and loss of appetite, and much in- 
convenience and pain during preaching. He informed 
us in order to give us the proffered relief he must cause 
pain. The knife must be used. It must be cut; the 
lance must go in deep ; and you can get ready to sprawl 
out on the floor in a dead faint, but I love your best in- 
terest and want to help you to sure relief. Did he love 
me, causing so much pain? O, sure, with real backbone 
love that would not hesitate to cause temporary pain that 
permanent relief might be given. Hurt? I should say 
so. Cry out and squirm? Of course I did. But in a 
few minutes it was all over, and the corruption being cut 
to the core, rolled out and almost instant relief came; 
appetite and sleep returned, the pain and fever left, and 
all because he was not too chicken-hearted to use the 
knife. He was momentarily destructive in order to give 
abiding relief. So the destructive preacher is, according to 
the analogy of nature. He must cause pain, bring intense 
conviction and fears, but it must be in love so that afterwards 
the peaceful fruits of righteousness abound. 

The Chicago North -Western Rail Road has a mag- 
nificent new depot in Chicago. They say it cost up- 
wards of thirty million dollars. But before that mag- 
nificent structure of architectural skill and perfection 
appeared, there was a gigantic work of destruction. It 



86 Walking as He Walked, 

is claimed eight hundred old, worthless, inferior build- 
ings were destroyed from the site of its present founda- 
tion. So the heroic is needed in the ministry, men who will 
tear down and destroy the worthless and false and inferior 
and dig deep the foundation in order that a glorious super- 
structure of Christlike character may appear. SUCH A 
MINISTRY WAS CHRIST'S, AND SUCH MUST 
BE THAT OF THOSE WHO WOULD WALK AS HE 
WALKED IN HIS MINISTRY. 

He tore down in order to build up ; discovered sin and 
forgave it; wounded, and healed; made men disconsolate 
and then comforted them. If one would imitate Him 
in His matchless ministry, he must not exclusively edify 
and comfort, as desirable as this would be, but frequently 
tear down and discourage from wrong conceptions of 
what following Christ is, and then to build up and com- 
fort. Christ never comforted any in their sins ; He never 
said, "Go in peace," to those who held on to sin. We 
wonder how some interpret Him when they give the im- 
pression He was all love and pity and compassion and 
sympathy. True, His severe messages were in love. He 
said, relative to His ministry: 

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because He has 
anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor; He sent Me 
to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the cap- 
tives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty 
them that are bruised." 



or Holiness in Action 87 

But He also spoke of bringing a sword, and He could 
and did administer the most scathing and withering de- 
nunciation and rebuke wherever necessary. "God so 
loved the world, and also God is angry every day with 
the wicked." In one breath He could say: "How can 
ye escape the damnation of hell?' 1 in the next, with tears 
in heart, eyes, and voice, "0, Jerusalem, how often would 
I have gathered you as a hen doth gather her brood.' 1 He 
would cry, "Woe, woe, woe unto scribes, Pharisees, and 
hypocrites," and then stretch out His arms in loving, 
beckoning, forgiving, inviting attitude, and say, "Come 
unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will 
give you rest." 

O, for this Christlike combination of fearlessness, cour- 
ageousness, boldness, fidelity, and yet with all com- 
mingled a heavenly sweetness, love, and tenderness! 
Almost invariably the love and tenderness side of Christ's 
character are magnified to the exclusion of His firmness. 
Love is no fool. Love has backbone. That is a peculiar 
kind of love indeed that looks on silently in the church when 
surrounded by unmistakable evidences of worldliness and 
pride; which lets the poor, deceived ones go to hell rather 
than speak out plainly in express, unmistakable terms 
against specific forms of sin. That is a type of love Jesus 
never possessed. REAL CHRISTLIKE LOVE WILL 
CONSTRAIN THE PREACHER TO GIVE NO 
QUARTER TO SIN ; TO "CRY ALOUD AND SPARE 
NOT : AND LIFT UP HIS VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET 



88 Walking as He Walked, 

AND SHOW MY PEOPLE THEIR SINS." He will 
not hesitate in love to use the knife. Cursed be he that 
doeth the work of the Lord deceitfully, or, margin, 
"Keeps back his sword from blood." 

There is great pressure on the minister to please all 
classes, which, if he yields to, he cannot please God. To 
do this he is urged to be wise, discreet, tactful, cautious, 
judicious, a mixer, all things to all men; join the lodges 
to win the lodge men, preach them special laudatory 
sermons, etc. But the world is never won to Christ this 
way, however much surface evidence of success there may 
be from this method, God has said the foundation that is 
not secure, which is daubed with untempered mortar, shall 
not stand. That portion of the world which is really won 
to Christ is won by going against and exposing its error 
with Christlike courage. He cared for no man's person 
or standing or social position or wealth, but rebuked all 
alike. 

II. 

Christ was a direct preacher. He did not spend His 
time discoursing about imaginary characters, or talking 
to those not present, or of some vague third person, but 
He employed the SECOND PERSON, 'THOU ART 
THE MAN." He specialized sin and people in His 
preaching so they knew of what he spoke and to whom 
He spoke. He was unlike that church in a large city 
which professes to represent Him, whose pastor assures 



or Holiness in Action 89 

the hearers by advance announcement that they may 
attend services there with the assurance that they will 
not be made uncomfortable or put in an embarrassing 
position. Indeed, this is just what must take place be- 
fore salvation is theirs. Jesus used plain terms, lust, 
adultery, fornication, evil thoughts, covetousness, called 
out scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites, lawyers, whited sepul- 
chers. He said, "Woe unto thee, Chorazin, Bethsaida, 
and thou, Capernaum," "O, Jerusalem, which stonest the 
prophets and killest them which are sent to thee." To 
the Jews He deliberately said, "Ye are of your father, the 
devil, and his lusts ye will do." 

How are they mistaken who adopt euphemistic, 
smooth-sounding, toothless, powerless words to describe 
what God, in unmistakable words, calls sin. Vague, in- 
definite, unspecific preaching will not bring the agonizing 
throes of old-fashioned conviction for sin. How, through 
vain conceit of learning, traditions and opinions of men 
is the counsel of God made of none effect — powerless! 
We are reminded of one of these worldly wise preachers, 
who said to his elite, cultured audience, "If you do not 
repent you will go to the place which I have too much 
self respect to mention before this cultured audience." 
Christlike, direct, specific preaching may grate on refined 
sensibilities and shock cultured ears, but they had better 
be severely shocked than damned. Nothing is a greater 
menace to the progress of His kingdom than the com- 
promising, man fearing, gingerly manner with which the 



90 Walking as He Walked, 

awful fact of sin is dealt with in many modern pulpits. 
How often we are informed, "The ordinary preaching 
does not trouble me, but when I go to the holiness camps 
and revivals my conscience is troubled; I lose sleep and 
appetite and feel dreadfully unright with God." The 
explanation is in the direct, Christlike, apostolic method 
of pointed preaching. "Repent YE: Ye crucified: YE 
have slain : Thou art in the gall of bitterness and bond of 
iniquity: YE shall all likewise perish except ye repent: 
It is not lawful for THEE to have her." 

III. 

Christ never learned hew to preach so as to offend none. 
Whoever will be God's preacher may as well know at the 
outset to preach the preaching that God bids him will 
mean opposition and offended hearers. A holy life and 
ministry, by virtue of their nature, antagonize sin and 
stir the devil. Mr. Wesley's rule for determining a suc- 
cessful sermon was, "Is anybody made angry?" His 
sons repudiate this rule and seem to think the more they 
please the people the more successful they are. Jesus 
offended his hearers. They sought to kill Him. Led 
Him out to the brow of the precipice to cast Him down, 
and said He had a devil, after one of His searching mes- 
sages. 

Christ, however, provoked little or no opposition until He 
was baptized with the Holy Ghost, and in a new sense spoke 
in the synagogue as His custom was. This time there is 



or Holiness in Action 91 

a "searching, penetrating unction in His speech which 
cuts His hearers to the heart" and results in the arousing 
of their anger and their leading Him out to the brow of 
the hill to cast Him down. The Baptism of the Holy 
Ghost and the consequent tongue of fire and OFFE ND- 
ED HE A RERS seem to go hand in hand. The Disciples 
had little opposition, comparatively until their reception 
of the Pentecostal Baptism. Then there was furor, tu- 
mults, arrests, imprisonments ', threats, and commands that 
they speak no more. The writer spoke many times in a 
certain church, and almost invariably with warm com- 
mendation and compliments, before he received the 
sanctifying Spirit, and then the aspect was entirely 
changed. They were offended; "He has joined that ho- 
liness propaganda; too bad, such a promising young man 
has lost his influence, and his mind (very kindly)." 

But, brethren, because the time has come (as a Meth- 
odist Bishop said) when they will not endure sound doc- 
trine, are offended at it, is no reason we should not give 
it to them ; whether they will hear or forebear, we must 
to keep God's smile on our hearts, declare the whole 
counsel of God. If we mean to follow Jesus in the use 
of the anointed tongue of fire, in testimony, prayer, and 
preaching, we will have offended hearers, must have 
them, and as long as we maintain this result in our min- 
istry there will be no danger of compromise. Let none 
suppose he can so wisely present the doctrine of the holy 
life as to offend none. If so, he has learned what Jesus 



92 Walking as He Walked, 

and the apostles and reformers never learned and what, 
please God, the writer of this exhortation never wants 
to learn. "Woe unto you when all men speak well of 
you." "From that time forth many of His disciples 
went back and walked no more with Him." They were 
offended at Him; "Knowest thou not that thy disciples 
were offended at thee?" Surely if any one could so wisely 
and judiciously preach as to commend the Gospel to all 
classes and offend none, Christ ought to be that one. 
But this He never succeeded in doing. He an- 
tagonized the world and unspiritual church and had their 
hatred. "Me it hateth because I testify of it that the 
works thereof are evil." It is not superior wisdom or 
tact or resourcefulness or judiciousness that preaches 
so as not to offend, but man fearing temporizing com- 
promise oftentimes. His warning "Woe" is given all 
who so do. 

IV. 

He was God's Mouthpiece. "Whatsoever I speak, even 
as the Father tells me so I speak." "I speak not of my- 
self, but the Father dwelling in me He doeth the works." 
"He gave me a commandment what I should say and 
what I should speak." "He whom God has sent speak- 
eth the words of God." To all who would be His 
representatives He still, as in the days of old, says, 
"Hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from 
Me." "All I command thee, thou shalt speak, di- 



or Holiness in Action 93 

minish not a word of it," keep back none of it, declare 
the whole counsel of God whether they will hear or 
whether they will forbear." "Eat the book, digest it, 
preach it ; multiplicity even of good books make a famine 
for the pure word of God. Preach the word, it is quick 
and powerful, the chosen power of God to salvation: the 
sword of the spirit, the hammer to break rocky hearts in 
pieces, the fire, to burn conviction home. O, be not 
wiser than Jesus, be not above preaching the simple 
story; shun science, philosophy, vain conceit, wisdom 
of words, lest the word be made void. 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 
CHAPTER XL 

"Follow Thou Me." 

We have often heard people sing lustily : 

"Where He leads me I will follow, 
I'll go with Him all the way." 

Through the judgment hall, where He is misjudged, 
misunderstood, miscondemned ; and through the garden 
Gethsemane, where great agony comes on Him till He 
sweats drops of blood, and to dark Calvary's brow, 
they promise to go, where the darkest tragedy of 
history is enacted — the Son of God suffering most ex- 
cruciating, convulsive, terrible agony. 

And we have heard that other hymn thoughtlessly 
sung, which makes so many promises of loyalty and 
vows to God of what they will do: 

"I'll go where you want me to go; 
I'll say what you want me to say; 
I'll do what you want me to do; 
I'll be what you want me to be." 

and as we have observed, we haven't seen much "follow- 
ing where He leads." When He would lead through 

95 



96 Walking as He Walked, 

"Judgment Hall" rather than go as promised they seem 
unwilling to be judged peculiar for His sake because of 
an out and out stand for Him; and scarcer still is the 
number who follow Him in Gethsemane's inexpressable 
prayer agony ; no, every man goes to His own home and 
sleeps soundly while Jesus goes out alone into the moun- 
tain to wrestle with the powers of darkness in high places ; 
or up a great while before day and out into the desert 
place to renew the conflict. The great mass who name 
His name know so little of fellowship with His suffer- 
ings; they know practically nothing of watching with 
Him even one hour — one sixty minutesl He must with 
sad tone of reproach say to them, "What, could ye 
not watch one hour with me?" Ye, who, Peter-like, 
have so loudly and publicly protested your love and 
loyalty, do you know so little of my mission as not to 
watch with me in prayer-conflict with spiritual wicked- 
ness in heavenly places one short hour? 

And when it comes to following Him in bearing His cross 
to the place of crucifixion, how few are willing! Sentiment 
considers those who do erratic and peculiar. Pity thyself! 
Far be it from them to suffer! How few self-indulgent 
modern Christianines and Christianettes realize following 
Him in bearing the cross is a condition of discipleship. 
"If any one will come after me let him bear his cross daily.'" 
"If any man will follow me let him deny himself." 

Then those who are saying what He wants them to 
say are sadly in the minority compared to the great 



or Holiness in Action 97 

majority. Their conversation would then be so differ- 
ent. "In heaven, seasoned with salt, administering 
grace to the hearers.'* spiritually helpful; but, no, it is 
of business, people, things, events, fashions, almost ex- 
clusively. 

When going where He wants them to go comes in they 
seem contrary and go in the opposite direction. ("It is 
of little avail to sing, Til go where He wants me to go, 1 and 
then turn and go in the other direction.") They go to card 
parties, dances, theatres, Sunday excursions, baseball, 
etc. If they really would follow Him He would lead 
them out seeking the lost at home and to the broad 
mission harvest field, or send others in their stead. 

Then if they would do as He wants them to do, there 
would not be the wide divergence between their pro- 
fession and practice. Their practice does not seem to be 
like Jesus would have it — instance business, buying 
and selling, wages paid — it would be done in His name, 
according to His Golden Rule standard and not accord- 
ing to world's rules, standards, habits, maxims and cus- 
toms, and ways of doing business. 

And finally if professors would be what He wants them 
to be, "there is an amazing catalogue of 'bes,' " — "Be 
kind, be tender, be gentle, be loving, be forgiving, be 
diligent, be discreet, be happy, be transformed, be pa- 
tient, be of good behavior, be filled with the Spirit, 
be holy in all manner of living," which are little in 
evidence. 



98 Walking as He Walked, 

As one hears these professions, promises, and vows of 
loyalty sung to God, and observes the wide difference 
in life, he is led to serious reflection : Either they do not 
realize what they promise or they are singing deliberate 
falsehoods. The writer was led to serious reflection on 
the matter and it came to him he believes as a suggestion 
from God, to carefully study the life and teaching of 
Jesus to see what following Him really means. So he 
- 'searched with the object of saving his own soul and de- 
termination not to shun following Him all the way, though 
in some places the road might be rough and stony. He 
saw profound depths of meaning in the brief command, 
"Follow me," given His disciples at the outset of His 
public ministry. We want to put our personal testimony 
here to His glory, we found no shrinking as the condi- 
tions bore down on us firmer and stronger; and as we 
followed closely our hearts kept asking, "Master, where 
dwellest Thou?" and He replied, "Come! come on, and 
keep coming on, and you shall see, and continue to see, 
how precious to follow the beloved of the soul." 

But what does "Follow Me" imply? 

I. 
Stop Following Someone Else! 

Men naturally follow the Prince of Darkness. "Ye 
are of your father, the devil, and his lusts ye will do." 
We are all by nature children of wrath, and in our native 
unregenerated state have no claim whatever on the 



or Holiness in Action 99 

Fatherhood of God. This Satanic domination must be 
recognized, painfully realized, and repudiated, renounced 
forever. As Gordon says: "Thy kingdom come, means 
thy 'King' also come and rule over me. It also means 
'the other kingdom (of Satan) and king go.' Thy will 
be done implies the other will (Satan's) be undone."" 
And "Follow Me" necessitates, stop following him\ Not 
only satan, but all his emissaries interwoven throughout 
society — his habits, manners, maxims, practices, cus- 
toms, fashion, follies and pride. Not only "love not the 
world, but neither the things that are in and of the God 
of this world." The mere "friendship of the world is 
enmity to God." "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." 
Ye cannot follow God and Satan at same time. "Fol- 
low Me" means farewell to the world — the old companions 
haunts, vices, and associations. 

II. 

Surrender of Legitimate as Well as the Sinful Essential. 

Oftentimes following Him not only necessitates cessa- 
tion from following the positively evil, but also much that 
is lawful and good. The disciples who first heard this 
command immediately left their ships, fishing, mending 
nets, following receipt of customs and other legitimate 
occupations to be in His best will. Still others can best 
follow Him by pursuing legitimate callings as unto Him. 
Whatever good or bad in the way of following Him must 



100 Walking as He Walked, 

be renounced. Some will possibly find it easier to let the 
evil go than to relinquish the good. For example, the 
writer came to grief several times in the pastorate which 
was as commendable and praiseworthy for him as others. 
He would appreciate being at home with loved ones too 
if it were God's best will. This he tried and God per- 
mitted it; it was His will permissively, but not His best 
will. There was a sense of condemnation and restless- 
ness. Scripture describes accurately his feelings: "He 
gave them their own desire, but — sent leanness into 
their (his)souls." We relinquished our own desire, for- 
ever gave up that which was desirable, pure, good and 
lawful, and launched far out by faith into God's best 
will and experienced a rest and fellowship most precious ; 
besides utter freedom from anxiety about open doors and 
remuneration. God blesses now in his ministry as He 
did not formerly; becoming to him everything relin- 
quished; "He maketh all his appointments;" (providen- 
tial open doors) and thus takes the place of bishop and 
presiding elder, and supplies all his needs (Phil. 4:19) 
and thus becomes his board of stewards; besides un- 
locking the Bible to his mind and giving messages much 
easier than formerly. 

We must die to lawful and good as well as sin when it 
hampers us from following Him closely. Paul recognized 
this principle: "Have we not power to lead about a 
wife as Peter?" No sin in this; lawful, ordained and ap- 
proved of God, yet to be unencumbered and free to un- 



or Holiness in Action 101 

dividedly give his time to God's work was judged to be 
the best will of God for him." 

"God has His best things 

For the few who dare to stand the test; 
He has His second choice 
For those who will not have His best." 

We must die to anything, pursuit, or person, though as 
dear as a right eye or arm, even though not sinful, which 
hinders from following where He leads. "If any man will 
come after Me let him deny himself and follow Me" — 
Not merely his bad self, but his good self! Bishop Tay- 
lor's sacrifice of seven years from his family, in the wilds 
of Africa, illustrates this principle. It is as right for the 
Evangelist to make and settle in a home with loved ones as 
the pastor or teacher, only to do so he would miss his calling, 
get out of God's best order, and the work he has greatest af- 
finity for, adaptability to, and efficiency in. It is the tes- 
timony of those who have made this mistake that God 
would not bless their labors fully: only in line of co- 
operation with His revealed will for one's life work is great- 
est success givenl 

John Wesley recognized the necessity of this death to good 
and lawful things and had an understanding with his in- 
tended previous to marriage, that he would not travel one 
mile less, or preach one sermon less, when they were mar- 
ried. In other words, to follow Jesus he would forego 
everything, even delights and comfort of home and loved 
ones. His brother Charles was thought, by him, to have 



102 Walking as He Walked, 

lost somewhat in effectiveness and usefulness, and even in 
personal joy, because he allowed love for home and domestic 
cares to keep him from going afield as formerly. 

Still it may be said of many choice servants of God, 
"He has married a wife" and, therefore, cannot go out 
into the larger field of sacrifice and usefulness. Said a 
sister in our hearing, "If I spent half the time in com- 
munion with God I devote to my husband I would be 
farther along in the Divine life ; God has shown me this 
hinders me in my quest of sanctification. God shall 
henceforth be first." She was soon "filled with joy and 
the Holy Ghost." 

"Is there a thing (or person) beneath the sun, 

That strives with thee my love to share; 
Ah, tear it thence and reign alone, 
The Lord of every motion there." 

There is still such a thing as choosing your own sphere, 
rather than have God's choice; of having your own de- 
sire, but with it a consciousness of not being at your best 
for God! "Dear God, you choose for me; I choose what 
you choose." 

III. 

We Are to Follow Him With Pure Motive. 

For what He is, and not for what He gives us. Our 
affection is to be purely for Himself alone, independent 
of what He bestows. Those who followed 'Him for 
loaves and fishes, or for remuneration, merit His re- 



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proach: ' 'Verily ye follow Me not for the miracles 
which ye saw, but because ye did eat of the loaves and 
fishes. Labor not for the meat which perishes, but for 
that which endures unto everlasting life." He has 
nothing to offer men but Himself. Foxes have holes and 
the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath 
nowhere to lay His head." He has no houses, lands, or 
dignities, to bestow on selfish followers. Yet those who 
leave all and follow Him for love's sweet sake have the 
assurance: "No man hath left ought for l MY sake' and 
the Gospel's but he shall receive manifold more in the 
present time, houses, lands, friends, mothers, brothers, 
sisters, with persecutions, and in the world to come, life 
everlasting." 

IV 
He Lets Men Know it is Not Easy to Follow Him. 

One said, "I'll follow Thee whithersoever Thou goest," 
He replied discouragingly. Men's minds need be dis- 
possessed of the sentiment following Jesus is a flowery 
bed of ease affair. 

"We may spread our couch with roses, 
And sleep through the summer days; 
But the soul who in sloth reposes 
Is not in the narrow way." 

Moody was once accosted by an admirer, who said, 

"You seem to have such a good experience, I would give 

the world to have an experience like you have." "That 

is just what it cost me, my friend," was the pointed re- 



104 Walking as He Walked, 

ply. The lofty attainments of those eminent for piety are 
looked upon as desirable in the abstract, but the number 
who count the cost and pay the price for such experiences 
are lew. They would gladly follow Him and the world 
too; serve God, if only man may have some service too; 
love God and the world too; be some unworldly and 
some worldly; give up some certain things which they 
care little for if only they may reserve others which they 
care more for; save their souls if only they may at the 
same time gain the world; things which Jesus declares 
NO man can do\ "Ye cannotl ye cannotl Ye cannot 
serve God and mammon;" no man can serve two mas- 
ters ; he will hate one and love the other, or, vice a versa ; 
the friendship of the world is enmity to God ; whosoever, 
therefore, will be the friend of the world, is the enemy of 
God. To follow Him Jesus taught men must either give 
up one or the other\ 

He Never Lowered the Standard to Secure or Keep 

Mere Joiners. 

The rich young ruler, on learning the conditions, went 
away sorrowful. Did not pay the price. Jesus did not 
run after him and lower the standard: "Wait, I'll see 
if I can't make a special condition in your case. Though 
our church condemns secrecy, tobacco, pride, and world- 
liness, we may be able to let you in; you are well off 
financially and would be such a help." No, sir! Never! 
He did not say, "I'm sorry the conditions offend you. 



or Holiness in Action 105 

I'll confer with the board and see if we cannot make 
special conditions for a man of your wealth and social 
standing. Our founders were not wise in framing con- 
ditions of membership. They were not advanced think- 
ers or men of breadth of culture or progressive. "Never! 
On another occasion a host of His disciples were of- 
fended at Him when He preached a close sermon on ad- 
vancing in the Divine Life. "And from that time forth 
(i. e., revelation of a deeper lesson) many of His disciples 
turned back and walked no more with Him." They 
said, "This is a hard saying, who can bear it?" "He 
preaches at us" — (disciples, as though we needed teach- 
ing). When they left off following Him He did not run 
after them, beseeching them to return, and apologize for 
offending them! Nay, rather, taught them the blessed- 
ness of those who are not offended in Him when He re- 
veals the truths hitherto kept from them because they 
were unable to bear them. Looking at the departing 
disciples, He simply turns to the twelve and says, "Will 
ye ALSO go away?" "You may if you will." If men 
do not approve His standards He does not change to 
suit them. 

V. 

Again, Following Him Was Taught to be Continuous. 

The disciples left their nets and, "going on from thence" 
they continued with Him. "If ye continue in my word 
then are ye My disciples indeed." No doubt this has 



106 Walking as He Walked, 

reference to continuance which leads to freedom indeed 
from sin, but there is a very decided sense in which these 
words apply to the most spiritual after heart purity. 
To the very end of probation we have the power to cast 
away our confidence, apostatise, draw back, and make 
shipwreck of the faith. "If any man draw back my soul 
shall have no pleasure in him." The power is with us to 
draw back or go on. We make the choice in either case : 
"If ye continue." "If thou continue, otherwise thou 
shalt be cut off." The revelation of His requirements 
to His followers is gradual ; not all given at once. 

We fear many who have enthusiastically started fol- 
lowing Him, spreading palm-branches, and cloaks with 
loud hosannas of welcome, are like the man who invited 
his friend to enter his home and told him to be perfectly 
at home; from kitchen to garret he was free to roam. 
Taking his host at his word, the guest saunters into the 
kitchen; but soon observes by the look of unwelcome 
interruption on Bridget's face he was not wanted there. 
Going from thence to the drawing room, where the 
daughter was entertaining her lover, he readily saw by 
their expressions "two is company here, three is a crowd." 
Next, to the study he goes; here his host gave him a look 
which clearly indicated he was busy then and preferred 
not to be interrupted. So Jesus is invited: "Come in, 
Lord, make yourself at home. I give you the keys; go 
from cellar to garret and enter the secret closets. "Then 
once He takes us at our word and commences exploration 



or Holiness in Action 107 

from cellar to garret He is pained to see the tell tale 
wincing as from secret chamber to skeleton closet He 
goes ; or as He requires for His use some especially prized 
chamber of our hearts. O, God, for honesty to see our- 
selves as we are! 

The unknown future is in His hands, and is only known 
a step at a time. Concerning it, He says, "Thou knowest 
not now, but thou shalt know hereafter." He has many 
things to say which at the outset we are not able to bear, 
howbeit "as we are able He speaks the word unto us." 
Here many prove as the hearers who joyously and emo- 
tionally received the word, yet by and by, after a little, 
when persecution or affliction arise because of the word, 
they are easily offended. As one said in our hearing, 
"If I had known this church would require that of me 
I would not have joined." Sad is the number who, on 
discovering the conditions of continuing, turn back 
"from that time and walk no more with Him." 

The writer had this lesson of continuity vividly im- 
pressed on his mind in the reception of the experience 
of sanctification while riding a bicycle. The Lord 
whispered to him through this bit of symbolism the sim- 
ilarity of the two experiences — in either case he must 
keep "moving on" to retain the experiences, or fall offl He 
has since discovered what was received in the moments 
of regeneration and entire sanctification, at the altar, 
while giving the desire to continue with Him, do not do 
the continuing ; he must choose and will His will in each 



108 Walking as He Walked, 

duty imposed. The promise to do all His will in the 
unknown future as revealed, did not do it without a 
deliberate volitional act. Following Him necessitates 
continuance: "If 9 ye continue — "then" ye are my 
disciples." Continue in His word; continue walking in 
Him as ye received Him; continue with Him in His sor- 
row; in His agony; in His burden for the world; in His 
deeper intimate communion with God; in His sacrifice; in 
His self denial; continue with Him in His uncompromis- 
ing attitude toward and reproof of sin; in His love for the 
church general, wherever found, of whatever name; in His 
sacrifice for its purification; in His persecution for rights 
eousness 1 sake; in antagonism from church and world be- 
cause of unflinching testimony against their evil and 
hypocrisyl In short, follow wherever He leads. 

VI. 

Following Jesus Necessitates Acceptance of His 

Teaching. 

He opened His mouth and taught them. Those who 
accept His doctrine only are true followers. They could 
not follow Him unless they partake of His life, so He 
early taught to hunger and thirst after the "filled full" 
and satisfied life and the blessing of "Heart Purity" as 
the grand preliminary condition and qualification to the 
reception of the many subsequent things He had to say to 
them, among which were things hard to be understood 



or Holiness in Action 109 

and which frequently turned back the surface hearers 
and left the real disciples still following on, undiscouraged, 
cheerfully, counting all but loss to be with Him. He 
taught them poverty would as likely be their lot as 
loaves and fishes; if they were following for houses, He 
had not even "where to lay His head;" When every 
man went to his own home Jesus went to the Mount of 
Olives. So poor was He, not even a "Life Insurance 
Policy" was left to cover His funeral expenses. A tomb 
must be donated. He only left His clothes behind; 
used up every energy and possession for God\ Oh, how 
few, even of those who claim to "wholly follow" Him 
follow His example of self denial. We read their thoughts 
now. But don't you believe in laying up for your chil- 
dren and old age? Yes, relatively. But we especially 
believe in unstintingly laying up treasures for Eternityl 
Our observation confirms the fact many will be the sur- 
prises, when in that day the discovery is made we laid 
up for children and old age, but comparatively little for 
Eternity! It may seem harsh, but Mr. Finney said, 
"O how quick will such faithless stewards be in hell!" 
Instead of extending His kingdom, willed to dissolute 
dissipated, godless, and worldly children! There are a 
few noble exceptions to the general spirit of money loving 
prevalent. Wesley left nothing over he could control; and 
said if anyone found any money remaining in his posess- 
ion beyond royalties which might accrue from the sale of 
his books, let him say John Wesley died a thief and a rob- 



110 Walking as He Walked, 

berl No doubt his covetous, avaricious, stingy follow- 
ers will say, Mr. W. was peculiar, eccentric, odd; but 
the "great day" will reveal! The writer knows a blessed- 
ly sanctified man who formerly was a drunkard and 
spent all in dissipation and sin; when converted and 
sanctified and led out of fifteen hundred dollars' debt, 
consecrated all to God but his expenses. Said he, "I 
gave the devil all and now I would be a common white 
man if I gave God, who saved, sanctified, and blesses 
with unspeakable blessings, less than I gave the devil." 
The reason why he is like a pleasant, smiling morning 
in May, or wears a broad, sun flower smile and sings, 
prays, praises, rejoices, and gets blessed night and day, 
is not far distant to see. He gets so much out of it be- 
cause he puts so much into it\ In sixty-five thousand miles 
travel we have not met his peer for spiritual joy. There's 
a reason. 



His Teaching, Summed Up, Embraces: 

"Blessed when poor in spirit" and mourning; leaping 
for joy when persecuted for righteousness* sake; in- 
fluence preserving like salt; light shining before men 
glorifying the Father who is in heaven; righteousness 
deeper than Phariseeism; reconciliation with God, and 
man as far as possible (go to thy brother who hath aught 
against thee, unless he be insane or irresponsible) ; free- 
dom from adultery in thought and act ; parting from sin 



or Holiness in Action 111 

though as dear as the right eye, hand, foot, or arm; no 
divorce except for one cause, viz., adultery — not for 
every little incompatability of temper; no sinful anger, 
getting back at offender, or eye for eye and tooth for 
tooth spirit; though there may be righteous, legitimate 
anger without retaliation ; charity, love for God, enemies 
and neighbors; give; forgive; perfection of Love (Mat. 
5:48) as a means to help keep other instructions given, 
and without which no one can follow Him. Those and 
only those who embrace, know, do, and live His commands 
can be said to follow Himl Ye know these things, "Happy 
are ye if ye do them!" "He that keepeth my command- 
ments he it is that loveth me." 



To follow Him is {in spirit, at least) to take our place 
alongside of the stoned prophets and Stephen ; beheaded 
John Baptist; beaten Paul; martyred fathers, and the 
crucified Christ. It is to follow in footsteps of that il- 
lustrious company of il Inquisition Saints" who were 
burned, crucified, beaten, and devoured by wild beasts 
for a spectacle of men and angels of whom the world was 
not worthy. It means the rack and arena and stake 
illuminating the royal gardens to satisfy the morbid 
mind of a tyrannical and cruel emperor; catacomb wor- 
ship in obscure places and halls. It means to follow the 
glorious company of reformers, Savanarola, Huss, 



112 Walking as He Walked, 

Luther, Ridley, Latimer, Wesley, Finney: It means 
persecution, heaviness, tears, sorrow, sweat, toil, night 
vigils, fasting, lonely mountain nights, prayer agony, 
blood sweat, desert place wilderness, Satanic conflict; 
keen hatred of the world and unspiritual church, and 
fickle friends ; opposition of loved ones ; variance of own 
household. It means plots against life; carried to the 
brow of the hill; enemies lying in wait; conspirators 
tempting ; spies seeking to catch Him in His speech ; mis- 
understanding, misjudgment, maligning, misquotation, 
misrepresentation, false accusation, false witnesses rising 
up against you, bearing false, cruel testimony. Loneli- 
ness, weariness, slander, reproach denial of every good 
in you (He hath a devil and is mad). Patmos' lonely 
isle ; narrow basket escape ; inner dungeon ; firey furnace ; 
lions' den ; the judgment hall ; buffeting, spitting; stricken 
by rods, palms of hands, burly fists; crown of thorns; 
nail-pierced hands and feet; cruel cries of, "Stone 
Him!" "Cast Him down!" "Crucify Him! Crucify Him!" 
Impaled on the cross, lifted up, put down with sickening 
thud; lacerated nerves, throbbing pulse, bleeding brow; 
jeering, taunting, rabble; bloodthirsty Jews and rude 
soldiers; gall to drink; pierced side, broken heart, Deathl 
Dear reader, as He speaks, "Follow thou me," in lieu of 
all this, does your heart still say, "Master, I will follow 
Thee whithersoever Thou goestV "Lead Thou me on; 
I have counted the cost, paid the price, and am going 
through." Blessed is the man who so says. 



of Holiness in Action 113 

He shall have manifold more in this present time 
(especially the joy of the Lord as his strength and pay) 
and in the world to come, Eternal Life — "Always to be 
with God in the 'City of God' with streets of gold, jasper 
walls, gates of pearl, God and the Lamb its light, angel 
harps, golden crowns, choir no man can number with 
melodious voices like the sound of many waters, singing 
the song of Moses and the Lamb; with the society of 
angels and the spirits of just men made perfect. These 
rewards are for those who follow the Lamb whithersoever 
He goeth for what He is, not for rewards, loaves and 
fishes, or human applause. 

VII. 

Finally, Following Him is Personal, Individual. 
Whether anyone else does or not. " Follow thou me.' 
"What shall this man do?" That, in plain English, is 
no affair of yours; look out for A. No. 1. Follow thou 
me! What is that to thee? If others and the world 
imperil their souls, "Follow thou me." But, Lord, my 
wife is pesky and environment is not good. Still, "Fol- 
low thou me." What shall this man do? How much 
modern Christianity is governed by "Public Sentiment." 
What it does, they do. What it condemns (though God 
commends) they refrain from. Its question is, have any 
of our rulers or leading men believed on Him and em- 
braced His teaching? What is that to thee? "Follow 
thou me." "Look off unto Jesus." 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 
CHAPTER XII. 

His Tolerant Spirit. 

When Jesus heard it, He marvelled, and said to them, 
that followed, "Verily I say unto you, / have not found 
so great faith, no not in Israel" 

Jesus recognized and rejoiced in faith and character, 
wherever, and in whomsoever found, though not of His 
church (i, e., the Jewish church). "1 have not found so 
great faith, no not in Israel." I have found greater faith 
and character in this Centurion than in any of the mem- 
bers of our church! No greater illustration of His tol- 
erance than that couched in these brief words. 

He continually rebukes His disciples for lack of faith; 
"O, ye of little faith." "Slow of heart to believe." 
"Where is your faith?" "How is it ye have no faith?" 
"Be not faithless, but believing." But never commends 
them for faith. Remarkable, though He condemns His 
own disciples for unbelief He recognizes and compliments 
the Centurion and the Syrophoenician woman, though 
outside of His own church, for their faith; — no matter 
where they belong if they have faith. Faith pleases God, 
without it it is impossible to please Him. 

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116 Walking as He Walked , 

The modern of this incident would be, "1 have not 
found so great faith, no not in all the B., P., M. E., F. M., 
or P. N. churches." To further rebuke their narrow, 
bigoted intolerance He said, Verily I say unto you, "that 
many shall come from the East and West and shall sit 
down with Abraham, and Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom 
of heaven. But the children shall be cast out into outer 
darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." 
He addressed these words to those who thought they 
were orthodox and others heterodox, that theirs was the 
true church while others were heretics ; to those who ac- 
cording to their light and privileges ought to be the 
children of God, but because of sectarian narrowness and 
blindness, miss the mark and shall be cast out while many 
whom they despised as heretics shall, to their surprise, 
sit down with the patriarchs in the kingdom of heaven. 

O, this dread monster of bigotry and intolerance which 
blinds sincere souls into believing a lie! Said a member 
of a distinctive sectarian holiness church to the writer, 
"I was taught to think no one was saved or right outside 
of 'us.' " But this same girl under searching truth had 
her eyes opened wide to see she herself was not right, and 
publicly confessed to wrong feelings toward every mem- 
ber of her church. She imbibed the idea membership in 
a radical church, shouting and demonstration, would 
cover a multitude of sins; and as long as she could demon- 
strate that was the main evidence of righteousness, even 
though her heart had wrong feelings toward others. 



or Holiness in Action 117 

The only way a man can keep favor with God is to 
view the church and world as He does: "God so loved 
the world that He gave." "Christ also loved the church and 
gave Himself." The provision is world-wide and (true) 
church-wide, "The grace of our Lord Jesus be with all 
them that love Him in sincerity" was Paul's attitude on 
the question. 

Other sheep I have which are not of this fold. Them 
I must bring." Who will help Him? ' To vest thou me? 
Feed my sheep;" of whatever name, wherever found. 
Alas, it is not club, abuse, or knock them in the head, 
find fault and nag at them, but feed theml Alas for those 
who cannot obey this command because, "they do not 
belong to our church." What must the great, loving 
Shepherd think of such a state of heart. He would bring 
them, must bring them, and wants helpers, but they can- 
not because of inability to see any good outside of their 
little church. 

Jesus did not ask the Centurion what church he be- 
longed to or if he would come into His church as a condi- 
tion, before granting his request; in fact, He seems care- 
less where he belonged, only concerned with granting the 
blessing he sought. Said a preacher to us, "If you will 
guarantee to do all in your power to get the converts to 
join our church I will engage you as Evangelist." We 
replied we will do our utmost to get them to God and 
encourage them to go where God leads them for a church 
home. Rather than let them be saved through his 



118 Walking as He Walked, 

church and then join some other, they might go to hell. 
"We will not have the meeting." What consummate 
folly! The Evangelistic gift, "Inspiration," informs us 
is to edify the whole body of Christ. Not the Methodist, 
F. M., W. M., Pres. Bap., or Nazarene members only, 
of His body, but the entire body of Christ. 

Some feel "Interdenominational" holiness work as ap- 
plied to the older denominations is a misnomer — as the 
denominations at large have practically nothing to do 
with it, the officials treating it very gingerly and in many 
cases frowning on such work. Granting such largely may 
be the case, still such work is essential among the numerous 
branches of the holiness work. They are in many cases as 
distant from each other as other churches are from them. 
See the personnel of many holiness church campsl And 
those who do not belong to them, though having gifts to 
develop the saints, are conspicuous for their absence, the 
evident reason being, "He follows not with us." This 
works also the other way. It should not be so in either 
case. There is no more justification for a Methodist 
holiness professor being churchy and sectarian than for 
a distinctive holiness church man to be so. God speed 
the day when men will be called not because they belong 
to this, that, or the other wing of the movement, but be- 
cause God honors them. 

"It is holiness, not the profession of it, that wins." 
Twenty-one factions in the movement — separations, 
divisions, factions, schisms, wrangles, law suits, railings, 



or Holiness in Action 119 

accusations, quarrels, boisterous argument, contention, 
bitterness, bigotry, undue sectism — all while professing 
a grace which, if possessed, would make these things im- 
possible^. We hoot at the idea of union of other denomi- 
nations until a great spiritual change takes place, but 
are we any nearer unity than they? We profess the 
blessing which makes one. Why are we not one? There 
may be local and geographical and financial hindrances, 
but should we not be one in spirit? Should we not cease 
setting our holiness brother at naught because he does not 
follow "us?" or belong to our church? 

We do not mean to parade faults of our people, nor in- 
sinuate conditions portrayed are the rule; they are the 
exception — but we know these conditions exist to a sad 
extent and, seeing with an impartial eye, our hearts are 
burdened for the cause. With Paul we lodge our protest : 
"Brethren, these things ought not so to be," — in the 
name of holinessl 

Personally we rejoice in every God honored agency 
and organization which is spreading the precious truth, 
and find equal joy in laboring with all to push this great 
work. 



He Followeth Not "Us!" 

James and John observed some one casting out demons 
who did not accompany Christ as they did. They 
thought surely his work must be spurious, because "he 



120 Walking as He Walked, 

followed not 'us;' " he does not use our methods, nor 
have our shibboleth, therefore he cannot be in the right 
spirit." Musing thus, and inflating themselves with 
their own perfection in the Master's work, to the exclu- 
sion of all others, on the impulse of the moment they 
"forbade" him. We can imagine James and John saying, 
"See here, you are unauthorized to do this work; you 
have not been taken into full connection yet; you are 
merely an amateur ; thus work is only to be done by fully 
ordained men like 'us.' " They then went to the Mas- 
ter and told Him, We met a man casting out demons in 
Thy name, and as he did not do it just in our groove, we 
"forbade" him, because he followeth not "us." 

Jesus read their hearts, saw the jealousy there, and for 
all time gave a stinging rebuke to the narrow spirit of 
bigotry: "Forbid him not, he that is not against us is 
on our parti 11 

James and John were rightly named "sons of thunder," 
or "thunderers." They wanted everything done in a 
stormy fashion. On another occasion, when the Sa- 
maritans refused to provide entertainment for their Lord, 
immediately they requested permission to burn them up. 
Again Jesus administered a severe reproof: "Ye know 
not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of Man 
is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them." 

There are many today in our Lord's ranks exhibiting 
the same narrow, bigoted, unsanctified zeal James and 
John showed on the above occasions. They are frequent- 



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ly overheard in prayer thanking God there are a few, 
meaning themselves, of course, who do the Lord's work 
to perfection ; all others, who, like the lone man who went 
about unostentatiously, casting out demons and doing 
all the good he could, are branded, "He follows not us," 
and looked upon askance. They forget, as Dr. Upham 
has said: "It is not the man whose external manifesta- 
tions are calculated to attract attention that is filled with 
the Holy Ghost to the exclusion of others." "They are 
so outrageously wedded to their own creed and religious 
system that they would rather let sinners perish than 
suffer those who differ from them to become instrumental 
in their salvation." Even the good done by others is 
denied or suspected as being spurious, because "he 
followeth not us." This spirit is despicable when seen 
in the nominal church, but, alas, there is much of it seen 
and heard among the various holiness churches. One 
branch tells us all holiness outside of "us" is spurious 
and popular holiness. Another says of the one men- 
tioned, "They have gone to seed on externals." Still an- 
other thanks God that they are not as other holiness 
churches, and that there are still a few, meaning them- 
selves, who have the real "full gospel." 

Other branches are showing what churches can do 
when run on "real Holy Ghost lines." Still others feel 
they have kept the main line of l 'holiness to the Lord" by 
loyalty to their respective churches. Each holiness church 
may have points of excellence above the rest, but it is 



122 Walking as He Walked, 

surely no part of holiness, which invariably produces 
great humility, to boast of that superiority. Another 
has severed his connection with all sects, holiness and 
otherwise, and bitterly denounces them all; when lo, 
around him have sprung up followers and adherents, 
with their chapels, hymnals, periodicals, etc., just as 
other sects, and they are as "secty" as the other sects 
they so bitterly denounce. "Oh, that we could see our- 
selves as others see us!" 

The tongue's movement, from its lofty pinnacle, 
thanks God for the real Bible evidence of the baptism 
with the Holy Ghost; others have only a theoretical 
evidence. Jesus prayed for the sanctification and unity 
of all His disciples, so that the world might behold and 
know God had sent Him as its Saviour. 

Time was when the holiness people lamented the lack 
of unity and brotherly love in the nominal churches and 
exhorted to holiness as the panacea for these ills; but 
alas, among us, brethren, is clearly seen, zeal for our 
movement, our church, or our shibboleth, which trans- 
cends zeal for God. 

How frequently we find holiness professing Christians 
with positively no interest in the work done outside their 
little sect. And when there is seemingly a work of grace 
done in a community through other distinctive holiness 
instrumentalities, they boldly speak disparagingly of it, 
because it was not done their way. Thank God there 
are many agencies and accessories at work for the sal- 



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vation of men that "follow not us." "God's love is 
broader than the measure of man's mind;" broader than 
our creed, or our way of doing things. 

Many in the holiness ranks have lost the sweetness of 
"perfect love," and are now blistering the poor churches 
and everybody else that "followeth not us." Oh, be- 
loved, we lament the dearth of spiritual life and power in 
• the nominal churches, and in some of the distinctive 
holiness churches, too, but can we not forbear with them 
as God has with us? God loves the world and the world- 
ly people in the churches, and designs to win and spirit- 
ualize both. Surely a harsh, rasping, denunciatory spirit 
will convince no one, in the church or world, of the superi- 
ority of the perfect love we possess. So far as superior 
power manifested by those who are blistering every one 
who does not jump, shout, and dress as they do, is con- 
cerned, it may appropriately be said to them, "What do 
ye more than others?" They meet together and men's 
lives are not changed, and so do you! 

Some have been cast out of the churches because of 
their profession; others have left, have felt God called 
them to leave; and then have made their personal lead- 
ing a standard for all others in the experience of holiness 
who feel called to remain in the churches. Now, be- 
loved, if you were called out we bid you God speed. But 
do not denounce those who feel God would have them 
stay on the firing line and shine on the poor benighted 
ones who so much need the light. 



124 Walking as He Walked ', 

A brother minister in a distinctive holiness church said 
he could not stand it to preach in the nominal churches, 
he would tear them all to pieces. He forgot John Wes- 
ley's advice, "Always draw and never drive." Holiness 
should not make us huddle among ourselves in a bunch 
and shout back and forth to each other and confine our 
love and operations to the few who profess that grace. 
Monasterial holiness is a very low type. "I pray not 
that thou shouldst take them out of the world." In the 
world and not of it. In the church also are many and 
yet having no fellowship with unspiritual things therein. 
O, brethren, let us remember those immortal words of 
Wesley: "The whole world is my parish," and adopt 
them; and Paul's, "As we have, therefore, opportunity, 
let us do good unto all men" and with malice toward 
none and charity for all, see in all candidates for the 
benefits of the atonement. There are many devout 
Corneliuses in almost any Evangelical church, who are 
walking conscientiously in all the light they have, wait- 
ing for the messenger of the Spirit-filled life to come. 

But then those who want all to "follow us" continu- 
ally flaunt in the faces of the few who are crying aloud 
with trumpet tones against the ease in Zion, "Your work 
is all lost — soon backslides, or is killed out" This can 
be said of all churches. It is not a matter of surround- 
ings with all (though it may be with some) so much as it 
is "God in us." He has kept souls blameless in the fiery 
furnace, in the den of lions, in the inner dungeon, at the 



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stake, and on the rack, and still, wherever His Providence 
calls us, His grace is sufficient, and we can stand; and 
stand therefore; and having done all, stand. Let 
them alone. Do not rob them of the little leaven they 
have, but bid them God speed. 



WALKING AS HE WALKED. 

CHAPTER XIII. 

Life and Light. 

"In Him was life; and the life was the light of men." — 
St. John 1 :4. 

Influence and power are always resultants of inner life. 
Jesus could say, "I am the light of the world," because 
He confirmed this statement by His life; because His 
inner life was right. Life first, then light. "In Him was 
life ; and the life (in Him) was the light. 1 '' Life, ■ — Light! 
The reason for little light, power, and influence, emanat- 
ing from one's life, is invariably, a defective inner life. 

Of paramount importance in the preparation for the 
work of the ministry and Christian work is the inner life 
of the worker. Other things are of secondary import- 
ance; such as general culture in the arts and sciences. 
One may be ever so proficient in all of these and yet fail 
to be a truly spiritual, soul-helpful preacher. After all, 
the power of the preacher is according to the life within 
the preacher. "The spiritual influence of the preacher 
in the long run is in proportion to his life." 

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or Holiness in Action 127 

An old minister once said, in delivering his charge to 
a young preacher, "Young man, you are called to this 
church, not in the first place to make so many pastoral 
calls, or to preach so many sermons, but to live among the 
people the best life you can." 

Spiritual Power is Always in Proportion to Life. 

It must be so, it could not be otherwise; the reason is 
not far distant to see : God only witnesses to truth. If 
He bears witness to a wrong life He becomes partaker of 
evil. This may account for the chill some testimonies, 
demonstrations, prayers, and sermons put on a meeting. 
God withholds His approval because the inner life dis- 
pleases Him! 

Did you ever notice in what connection God is said to 
be able to do exceeding abundantly above all we ask or 
think? Listen! It is according to the power that 
worketh in us\ According to our inner lifel 

God gives us His ideal preacher in Malachi: "For the 
priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek 
the law at His mouth ; for the priest is the messenger of 
the Lord of hosts." The law of truth was in his mouth. 
"He walked with God in peace and equity and did turn 
many from iniquity." Here the connection between 
inner life, and turning many from iniquity is clearly seen. 
God recommends and uses a right life. "This is my be- 
loved Son, in whom I am well pleased" — (His life was 
right) now comes God's recommendation, "Hear Him!" 



128 Walking as He Walked 

This may be said of all lives which please Him; e. g. 
"Hast thou considered my servant, Job?" When the 
inner life breaks with God, this form of power ceases. 

Like Preacher, Like Sermon. 

It is said a sermon is the expression of a personality. 
Or it is an expression of life such as in the personality 
of the preacher — "a living, pulsating message coming 
out of the life of the soul of the preacher.' ' Out of the 
abundance of the heart life, the preacher preaches. The 
sermon gives away his inner life, and what he is speaks 
so loudly that what is said cannot be heard. Henry 
Ward Beecher, being asked how long it took him to pre- 
pare the great sermon just preached, replied, "forty 
years!" It was the result of his inner life, the outgrowth 
of forty years' walking in unbroken inner life communion 
with God. 

"The Gospel is an incarnation of truth through per- 
sonality.'' 1 "The Word was made flesh and dwelt among 
us and we beheld His glory, full of grace and truth." 
The personal method is God's way of disseminating truth 
and life — not primarily through institutions and lit- 
erature. This is readily seen when we remember the 
difficulty of putting unction on the printed page, and that 
the same written truth backed by the personality of the 
writer, when spoken, produces such vastly different ef- 
fects. The explanation of the remarkable effects of 
Wesley's preaching is found herein : He spoke from inner 



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life. That always decides the measure of pure power 
one has. "From lip to lip and heart to heart, truth must 
be passed on — the Divine life in one soul to be as a 
torch with which to kindle it in another." 

"If thou the truth would teach, 

Thou thyself shouldst be true; 
If another soul thou wouldst reach, 

Thy soul must overflow." 

Preaching is more than saying things, even though they 
be true. True preaching speaks out of heart, life, and 
experience accompanied by the Holy Ghost. It is u the 
living word and not professional repetition of truth." 
A man may study Divinity as a profession like the lawyer 
studies law and know no more of God than the lawyer. 

Who cares to hear a man preach whose life is full of 
inconsistencies? How can God bear witness consistent- 
ly to mere intellectualities from a rotten heart? "Thou 
that teachest another, teachest thou not thy self?" As 
Dr. Hoyt puts it: "A text that has no message for the 
preacher has none for the hearer. He must first preach 
to himself if his word is to reach the reason and conscience 
of others. He can only have a message in as far as he 
can himself experience the truth of his message." He 
must apply not only himself wholly to the text, but the 
text wholly to himself. 

It may seem harsh, but the preacher who fails to live 
a victorious inner life is useless to God. An evangelist 
labored greatly in prayer for a revival in a run down 



130 Walking as He Walked 

church. The pastor, seeing the Holy Spirit immediately 
poured out, and having been practically fruitless him- 
self, abruptly dismissed the evangelist, thinking to con- 
duct the revival and possibly get the credit himself. 
But he failed to remember that revivals do not come in- 
dependent of the life of the leader, and as the faithful 
servant of God went out, the revival went out also. 
"Barnabas was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost," 
now comes the light, influence, and power in service as 
natural concomitants — "Much people was added to 
the Lord." 

Life Has Its Manifestations. 

What ails my boys? By the watch they cannot be 
still a half minute. They are always on the go. They 
come down the stairs like cyclones or tornadoes. Life 
is all. Fulness of life. Exuberant, overflowing life that 
cannot keep still; that must be manifested and demon- 
strated. 

Life, spiritual as well as physical, has its manifesta- 
tions. The power of Jesus was simply the expression 
of His victorious life: 

In Him was life, then manifestations of light — "His 
life was the light of men." There must be life before 
there can be manifestations of life. There must be 
spiritual life before manifestations of light. Letting our 
light shine implies having light. Get it within, and then 
it cannot be hid. No manifestations (external) of spir- 



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itual life, light, power, influence, are evidence prima 
facie of absence within of life. In Him life, then out 
of Him went lightl Eye single, or heart right, and the 
whole body full of light is ever the result. John, the 
Divine, expresses the same thought in other words: 

"He that believes on me (with saving faith) out of the 
depths of hU life SHALL flow rivers of living water." 

What is the use to dodge the real issue and blame con- 
ditions? Life, in Him, could not be hid! Nor can it be 
if it be in us. Let us be honest. Bishop Thoburn said, 
"Woe unto the professing Christian unto whom no one 
ever comes for spiritual help." God is displeased with 
something in his life, and this accounts for his fruitless- 
ness. We disclose our inner life condition when light, 
life, warmth, and power cease emanating from us. Is 
not this the why of powerless preachers and workers? 
Have they not neglected the life which insures the 
power? God's plan is to manifest the savor of His 
knowledge by us in every place His providence calls us. 

Have we not failed in magnifying unduly intellectual 
calibre as the road to attainment in the knowledge of 
God? Obedience is the organ of Spiritual knowledge. 
Indeed, extreme intellectualism may prove a hindrance 
to spirituality and the acquisition of knowledge in the 
things of God. Paul said he received his Gospel by 
revelation from heaven. God will not bear witness to 
one's ministry according to his degrees, diplomas on 
the wall, the length of his coat, or his white cravat; but 



132 Walking as He Walked 

according to his inner life. We should do our best in 
the providence of God to increase our fund of useful 
knowledge, but life should be our prime concern — "The 
life was the light." An "audience is held and moved by 
the outgushing of a life." Violations of Grammar, Rhe- 
toric, Logic, Homiletics, and Oratory which are invol- 
untary should not concern us so much as violations of 
life which are voluntary and deliberate. When unin- 
tentional slips in language occur while the full heart is 
outpouring and gushing forth in speech, its deep feelings, 
we, with Beecher, should say, "If the English language 
gets in my way it does not stand a half chance." Fin- 
ney's method was good — filling the heart with his sub- 
ject and then pouring out his heart on the audience. 

Did you ever remind anyone of Jesus? "A cheerful 
heart maketh a glad countenance." The features are 
the apparent seat of the soul. They register inner life. 
An evangelist testifies, "Pardon me, but there have been 
times in my life when my heart has been so full of the 
life of God that unknown parties (among them a Jew) 
in strange cities have accosted me and said : 'You are a 
Christian, I can tell.' " This should not be exceptional. 
George Mueller discovered that his first daily duty was 
to get his own soul happy in God ; and Dr. Jowett said, 
"All else was useless, unless, my soul, thou live this day 
close to God." 

What is the Holy Spirit now demanding of you, dear 
reader, in order to right inner life and best manifesta- 



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tions of the same? Let it go now. He waits and re- 
fuses to fill until you do. May be it is a private, person- 
al, selfish, injurious indulgence, or some questionable 
practice in business life? Or faithless stewardship? Or 
you are resisting the call of God for some special service? 
Carelessness in little details of life, pride, love of the 
world, etc., are clear indexes of the inner state. It can 
be proven "carelessness in little things is not consistent 
with faithfulness in anything.". "Faithful in little, also 
in much." You may say, "I do not mean to defraud" — 
But a man surely intends to do what he does do. Loose- 
ness assumes tremendous moral significance and is in- 
consistent with life such as was in Him. We would bet- 
ter be so scrupulously conscientious as to be called "over 
conscientious." How much better is this than to be 
* 'under -conscientious.'' ' 

A LIFE WHICH IS UNDEVIATINGLY STRAIGHT, 
UNCOMPROMISING, SCRUPULOUSLY CON- 
SCIENTIOUS IN EVERY LITTLE DETAIL OF 
LIFE, COMES NEAR BEING THE LIFE WHICH 
GOD WILL MAKE A LIGHT. 

Let us stop crying for the power of former times until 

Our Life is as theirs: Many of us are willing to have 
the power men like Wesley and Finney possessed, with- 
out realizing that their measure of power was according 
to their entire devotedness to God, and the outcome of 
their inner life. O, God of Wesley and Finney! Yes, 



134 Walking as He Walked 

He is the same, but where are the Wesleys and Finneys 
of God ? Are we willing to pay the price of entire aban- 
donment they paid? All deeded over to God above a 
reasonable estimate of actual needs — Quit claim our 
all, in God's favor; deed ourselves fully over to Him, 
and mean it. If so, the power of former days shall be 
ours, intensified. 



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